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@Scrutinizer: -F option would work only if the file name doesn't change.

@ooilinlove: One alternative is, you can have a soft link pointing to the log file and the link should be re-created every hour. This can be taken care by an entry in cron.

For e.g., create a soft link 'GatewayTransaction.log' pointing to 'GatewayTransaction.20120429-08.log' in the 8th hour. In the 9th hour it should point to the 9th hour log file. This hourly rolling can be taken care by an entry in cron.

So once this is done, you can use the -F option of tail tail -F GatewayTransaction.log and this would continuously tail log files regardless of the hour.
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NAME
rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server SYNOPSIS
rotatelogs logfile rotationtime [offset] DESCRIPTION
rotatelogs is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's piped logfile feature, which can be used like this: CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 86400" common This creates the files /var/logs/logfile.nnnn where nnnn is the system time at which the log nominally starts (this time will always be a multiple of the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started. OPTIONS
logfile The path plus basename of the logfile. If logfile includes any Otherwise, the suffix .nnnnnnnnnn is automatically added and is the time in seconds. Both formats compute the start time from the beginning of the current period. rotationtime The rotation time in seconds. offset The number of minutes offset from UTC. If omitted, zero is assumed and UTC is used. For example, to use local time in the zone UTC -5 hours, specify a value of -300 for this argument. PORTABILITY
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