I wanted to see the message.d log file in reverse order, to check the
latest system messages, no not using tail command, since in tail its a
finite number of lines but i may not know upto which line i may have to
go.

thanks in advance.
Regards
Yayati.


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Hi,

In my system, I have a program called tac which does the job. ( opposite
of cat).
Anindya.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:47:46PM +0530, yayati wrote:
> I wanted to see the message.d log file in reverse order, to check the
> latest system messages, no not using tail command, since in tail its a
> finite number of lines but i may not know upto which line i may have to
> go.
>
> thanks in advance.
> Regards
> Yayati.
>
>
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man tac

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:17, yayati wrote:
> I wanted to see the message.d log file in reverse order, to check the
> latest system messages, no not using tail command, since in tail its a
> finite number of lines but i may not know upto which line i may have to
> go.
>
> thanks in advance.
> Regards
> Yayati.
>
>
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