way to flush /var/log/message

[Reindl Harald]

Am 20.05.2012 14:52, schrieb suvayu ali:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
> <mellertson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What you are seeing is the last last 10 lines of the file, and
>> then new additions as it is added to the file. This is the way
>> tail -f works. You may want to read the man or info page on tail.
> 
> Maybe `less +F /path/to/file` would be more appropriate here?

"tail -n 1000 -f /var/log/messages" does practically the same
and is more suiteable on large files

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