tail / multitail not working on Centos 6?

[faris]

My Google-fu has failed me -- I can't seem to find a reference to this anywhere.

neither "tail -f" nor multitail are working for me when connecting to a Centos 6 box via putty. Works fine on Centos 5

By not working, I mean the data in the window does not update/refresh/scroll. It just sits there showing me a snapshot of the file(s).

It makes no difference whether I use "screen" or not.

Multitail draws the various windows correctly and the colours are correct, so I'm assuming all the bits I need are installed?

[breun]

The tail -f <file> command works fine for me on CentOS 6, but I don't use PuTTY. Have you tried using another SSH client?

[biggles]

breun: What are you using for ssh?

[breun]

The OpenSSH client, since that's generally available by default on any UNIX-based OS worth its salt.

[scott]

Ditto, I use it from linux obviously. But if you're on windows you can run it natively using cygwin

[biggles]

Thanks both Breun and Scott!

[faris]

It seems that tail -f and multitail do actually work. I was looking at the wrong things, or doing something wrong. Or...I don't know. I was under severe pressure at the time and was making a lot of errors.

What was happening was that I was using them to view logs in a live VPS and while this worked in an older version it no longer works in the new version. This is probably expected behaviour but who knows.