slightly tricky way of capturing additions to a logfile

[Randy Jonasz]

>
> Does this do anything you don't get from 'tail -F -n 0 /var/log/syslog'?
> Of course using tail solves the log rotate problem too.

I much prefer this.  Easy to remember and it works.  Although you need
two shells but in most cases that is not a problem.
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