Since ----- since is a tail(1) with state - it allows the user to view only the lines appended to a log file since the last time since was used. Installation Instructions ------------------------- To build the executable type: make To copy the executable and manual page, become root and type: make install The default locations are: /usr/local/bin/since /usr/local/man/man1/since.1 Use --- To understand how it works run the commands: make echo "First line" >> testlogfile ./since testlogfile echo "Second line" >> testlogfile ./since testlogfile rm testlogfile You might want to set up the following alias: alias dosince='since /var/log/messages /var/log/xferlog' Since is released under the terms of the GNU public license. Click accept now... errr... sorry... just look at COPYING.