Stephen A. Jarjoura wrote:
1. What's the common / accepted method for modifying module
functionality on your own system? As a temporary hack, I just
overloaded the method... Is it acceptable to actually edit the
modules source code? Do people write their own derived classes?
How is this
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Ranga Nathan wrote:
Thanks all for the responses
While talking to my son he pointed out that tailing xferlog would be a
problem when the log is being rotated. I would be looking at an old inode
that has no activity. I looked at the system and found that the logs are
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:38 -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote:
I will have to re-start the script after every log rotation! I wish I
could do this programmatically. Perhaps another script to monitor the log
file and notice the sudden change in size or inode.
This is from the man page for tail:
While talking to my son he pointed out that tailing xferlog would be a
problem when the log is being rotated. [...]
Wow, so child processes can communicate useful information back
to parent processes after all! :-)
peace, || No Coke at University of Michigan:
--{kr.pA}
(Sorry this is late!)
18 people came to last Wednesday's tech meeting, for our look at graphing
with Perl.
As we waited for people to arrive, Bill Ricker mentioned that he had seen
an interesting JAPH on Perl Monks. We took a look, and it turns out it was
written by liverpole, aka John Norton,
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:25:08PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
because of how inodes were created you can't watch mtime or size and
guarantee you have new data to read. one very bizarre corner case is
when the log file is overwritten with the exact same size of text as it
previously had. then
JM == John Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JM On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:25:08PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
another issue is should you keep a handle open between tail polls or
open it fresh each time? since my code checks the inode number, opening
each time makes more sense.
JM
On 2/21/06, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JM == John Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
JM Of course, detecting that a log switch of some sort has occurred
JM doesn't ensure that you will be able to tell if more than one
JM has occurred very quickly (from your frame of
