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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
cmannotifyd - CMAN Notification Daemon SYNOPSIS
cmannotifyd [-f] [-d] DESCRIPTION
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