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+.TH E2TAIL 1 "March 2, 2005"
+.\"
+.SH NAME
+e2tail \- a basic version of the tail command for an ext2 filesystem
+.\"
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B e2tail
+.RI [ options ] " file"
+.\"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The \fBe2tail\fP command implements a basic version of the tail command.
+.\"
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-n \fInum_lines\fP
+The number of lines to display
+.TP
+.B \-f
+Output appended data as the file grows.  This is inode dependent, so if the
+file is renamed, it will keep checking it.
+.TP
+.B \-F
+Output appended data as the file grows.  This is file name dependent, so if
+the file is renamed, it will check on any new files with the same name as the
+original.  This is useful for watching log files that may be rotated out
+occasionally.  This was requested by a person in the computer security field
+for monitoring 'honeypot' type machines.
+.TP
+.B \-s \fIsleep_interval\fP
+The number of seconds to sleep before checking if the file has grown while
+in 'follow' mode.  The default is 1.
+.\"
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR e2tools (7),
+.BR e2ln (1),
+.BR e2ls (1),
+.BR e2mkdir (1),
+.BR e2cp (1),
+.BR e2rm (1),
+.BR e2mv (1).
+.\"
+.SH AUTHOR
+The \fBe2tools\fP were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.
+.PP
+This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>,
+for the Debian project (but may be used by others).