Re: iTools spawning tails (Was:Re: Tech Support policy question...)

[Parker <parker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anita Holmgren wrote:

> At 6:27 PM -0700 1/26/01, Parker wrote:
> >Does iTools spawn a new tail -f process on /logs/iTools.status every
> >time the iTools.app is cycled? If so.. why?
>
> As Eric said, the answer is yes.  However, this may be a
> manifestation of the fact that previous use in WebTen required a
> re-open due to the emulation of the UNIX file i/o on top of the Mac
> OS file system.  We may not need to do this in OS X.  This needs to
> be investigated.

Cool thanks. Ironically I had composed a not all that nice email this
morning about _needing_ answers to these questions (some of which are
almost two years old) right before Eric answered them! Luckily I was
using a different email client which wasn't allowed to post so I saved
face (kinda.. shoulda thought of disabling write perms on the reverse
lookup file!! Doh!).   :-)

I created a start.admin startup script which works great and doesn't
spawn these demon tail -f processes (I had 7 unique ones over the last
four months of uptime! Bleh!). Glad to hear that named caching will be a
future option... I'm going to activate that tomorrow anyway just to save
a tiny amount of bandwidth.

Feels good to have new faith in the iTools folks.  :-D

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