On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 20:12 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:46:14PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: > > strftime would both work I guess, those just seemed a little heavy (was > > hoping for an "alias"-sized answer) to figure out something that the > > server certainly knows. > > it's not nice, but it works: > alias pgtail='/bin/ls -1 /var/log/postgresql/postgresql*log | tail -n 1 | xargs tail -f' > > of course it has some assumptions: > 1. your logs are in /var/log/postgresql/ directory (easy to change) > 2. your logs are named in such way that sorting them alphabetically will > sort them chronologically (i.e. %Y-%m-%d or something similar) (not easy > to change) Hmm what about just "ls -tu" Which if I am reading the man page correctly sorts by last access time. Joshua D. Drake > > depesz > > -- > Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ > jid/gtalk: depesz@xxxxxxxxxx / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007 > -- -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
