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Tobias Klauser – a grml team member – created inotail. Quoting the README of inotail:

inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the ‘-f’ option). Standard tail polls the file every second by default while inotail listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file needs to be reread.

Grab the Debian package either from the webpage of inotail or if you are a grml user just run ‘apt-get update ; apt-get install inotail’. Enjoy and please report feedback to Tobias!

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