Symbolic link (symlink) files not reading?


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Hi again - we are using log rotation (daily) where each day might contains the date (and a sub-number for intra-day large file rotations), such as "all-2021-02-24-00.json" and "all-2021-02-23-00.json" (etc).  To make it easy to track the current log file, it maintains a symbolic link for "all.json" to the most recent log file.

I am finding if I open the symlink file, nothing appears in the log pane, whereas if I open any of the daily files, they open correctly.  I am using the same parser for both, and there are no errors messages shown.

Does LogViewPlus support symbolic linked log files?  If not, is there an approach where if can auto-select the most recent log file given a file name pattern, or do I need to close the log and open the most recent file after any rotation to tail current log entries?

Thanks!


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