It's annoying to follow the syslog, but then tools like logroate kicking
in to rename syslog to syslog.1. Then you're stuck with the "old" syslog
file content, by using the --follow=name option we can fix this.
Quoting from tail(1):
| With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor,
| which means that even if a tail'ed file is renamed, tail will continue
| to track its end. This default behavior is not desirable when you really
| want to track the actual name of the file, not the file descriptor
| (e.g., log rotation). Use --follow=name in that case. That causes tail
| to track the named file in a way that accommodates renaming, removal and
| creation.