Re: How to show system messages

[Carlos Toledo <sarek22 casal upc es>]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jeff Shipman wrote:

> You can:
> 
> 1) Check the timestamp of the file
> 
> 2) Use 'tail -f filename' and it will constantly
>    update whenever something is added.
> 
> Jeff "Shippy" Shipman     E-Mail: shippy nmt edu
> Computer Science Major    ICQ: 1786493
> New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
> Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Carlos Toledo wrote:
> 
> > Hello, i want to ask you more than a problem with gtk, a problem with C.
> > I want to do a messages console that shows the file /var/log/messages but
> > I have the problem that this file grows with all messages and when I have
> > read it, there is more information on this file. How can I do to know when
> > is new information whithout read the file all time or looking the size?
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> > (sorry for my horrible english)
> >
> >
> >
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> 
First, thanks to people that answer my mail . I saw the tail code and it
sleeps 1 second and looks if the file size is equal (always the fisrt
solution is the best :) . I will do the same, it's more fast than call
other functions.

Saludos.
    Carlos.