Problem with vi editor

[Vivek Gite]

Try tail -f /var/log/trace.log

May be some kernel issue but i'm not sure...


On 4/17/07, Ravi R.S <raviraj at sasken.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have an C++ application running on my linux machine. This application
> logs
> all the information to a log file named trace.log. When I open this
> trace.log with vi editor(redhat linux kernel 2.6) and save during when the
> application is running and edit it, the application stops logging to the
> file no more logs are logged into the trace.log file even the application
> is
> running. Why this behaviour?
>
> But this is not the case in the Debian linux. Even after editing the log
> file, it still continues to log after saving it.
>
> Can somebody give pointers on this. Your comments will be appriciated.
>
> Regds,
> Rav
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