tail command failing in ubuntu 12.04 lts

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 02:08:58AM -0700, Srinibas wrote:
>    tail command only shows last few lines but not appending on the fly.
>    I am trying to do "tail -f /var/log/syslog" . /var/log is mounted on
> overlayfs.

I think I remember seeing a bug report about tail -f being broken on
overlayfs.

>    tail works fine on logs in /tmp directory as its mounted on tmpfs. Kindly 
>    provide me a workaround or a fix for the same.

I'm not aware of any.

Marius Gedminas
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