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

Pavel Tsekov ptsekov@syntrex.com
Fri Oct 12 09:06:00 GMT 2001


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 ?

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