Re: Bug in tail when following files(?)

[Peter Postmus]

Forgot to mention: I'm using tail from coreutils 5.0.

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 01:08, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think i may have found a bug in tail. Recently I have tried to let my
> Linux server/router automatically read each new line that is added
> to /var/log/messages, through my speakers. I use the Festival
> text-to-speech engine (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/) to do
> so. So, when issuing the command
>
> tail -n1 -f /var/log/messages |./festival --tts
>
> I expected to hear just that - every newline. Instead, the speech will stop
> after a number of words have been spoken (the number is not always the
> same). However, when the -f option is omitted, the last log entry is spoken
> completely. That's why I suspect this to be a problem in tail, not is
> Festival.
>
> The strange thing is, if i just run
>
> tail -n1 -f /var/log/messages
>
> everything is fine: each newline is printed to stdout. The problem arises
> when I connect Festival to the pipe. So that seems to indicate that the
> problem has to do with festival. I'm not sure though. Any help on this
> would be greatly appreciated.

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Met vriendelijke groeten,
With kind regards,

Peter Postmus