tail -f on NT does not work (with mapped drives)

[Pavel Tsekov]

To : Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>
Subject : Re: tail -f on NT does not work (with mapped drives)
>From : Hermann Angstl <hal at camline dot com>
Date : Sun, 14 Oct 2001 19:12:07 +0200
References : < 3BC683FA.8D051F2C@camline.com > < 3BC714F2.C1E03194@syntrex.com >

Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> Hermann Angstl wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running the Cygwin port of the "tail" command (from the GNU
> > textutils-2.0) on Windows NT 4.0.
> >
> > It seems that "tail -f" is not working properly on mapped drives (i
> > mapped a linux drive via samba - also tried it with a NFS mounted
> > drive).
>
> What is the behaviour that you observe that makes you think it
> doesnt work fine ? Some output perhaps would be usefull. Does it
> complain about permissions or what ?

I have a file on a linux box, which is slightly growing. I access this
file from my NT box via samba. After startting "tail -f <filename>" i get
the last lines of this file. But this output stays the same (forever) ->
is never updated. "tail -f" should display always the last couple of
lines of a file - but it does not.

cu,
hal