[r0naa]

Interesting.

I always preferred

  watch -n 1 -d 'tail /path/to/log/file'

to tail -f

because of its nice highlighting feature.

[pimlottc]

watch is one of the great unsung heroes of unix tools. Discovering it was one of those "I wish I knew about this years ago" moments. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have spread much beyond GNU/Linux platforms.