[Logcheck-devel] Bug#453309: logtail ignores the -o (offset file) option

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:26:22PM +0100, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> (Di 05 Feb 2008 11:46:15 CET):
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:05:53PM +0100, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> > > The logtail utility fails in using some alternative offset file
> > > (passed via the '-o' option).
> > 
> > Please give an example how to reproduce the issue.
> 
> Hm. I can't. It seems to work:
> 
>     logtail -f <LOGFILE> -o <OFFSET>	    # works (according man page)

Good ;)

> .. as documented. I think last time I supposed it should work that way
> too:
> 
>     logtail -o <OFFSET> <LOGFILE>	    # doesn't work (doesn't fit
> 					      to manpage)

That does not look like a bug to me then. Is the error message helpful?

>     logtail <LOGFILE>			    # works (but doesn't fit to manpage)
> 					    # but of course, no
> 					    # alternative offset file

That might be a historically sourced backwards compatibility, which is
not documented on purpose.

I do not see a bug in the package, the documented call works fine.
Whether the documentation needs to be changed would be Martin's last
call, he will comment in due time.

Greetings
Marc

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