#!/bin/sh # Ensure that tail -f works on an append-only file # Requires root access to do chattr +a, as well as an ext[23] or xfs file system # Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301, USA. if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then set -x tail --version fi PRIV_CHECK_ARG=require-root . $srcdir/../priv-check pwd=`pwd` t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$ trap 'status=$?; cd "$pwd" && chmod -R u+rwx $t0 && rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0 trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15 framework_failure=0 mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1 cd $tmp || framework_failure=1 touch f chattr +a f 2>/dev/null || framework_failure=1 ( echo x > f ) 2>/dev/null && framework_failure=1 echo x >> f || framework_failure=1 if test $framework_failure = 1; then echo "$0: chattr +a doesn't work on this file system; skipping this test " 1>&2 (exit 77); exit 77 fi fail=0 sleep 1 & pid=$! tail --pid=$pid -f f > /dev/null 2>&1 || fail=1 chattr -a f 2>/dev/null (exit $fail); exit $fail