On четвер 20 грудень 2007, Max N. Boyarov wrote: = after something writeln to /var/log/messages tail get SIGPIPE But why is that needed for tail to notice? It is trying to output 10 lines. After it outputs the very first one of them, awk exits, and the 9 subsequent lines go into thin air /without tail noticing/. Is not that a bug in itself? -mi