Shawn H Corey <[email protected]> writes:
> http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm
Thanks that looks useful. Is there a reason why I should use that
module as apposed to the kind of code offered in the faq about
tail? (perldoc -q tail) as suggested by another poster (Jim G).
I mean, I'm not experienced enough to know if there are things the
module handles that a simple script like the one below does not.
open(FILE,"<./named-pipe") or die "Can't Open ./named-pipe: $!";
while(<FILE>){
print;
if(eof){
sleep 2;
seek (FILE,0,1);
}
}
It seems at least to survive repeated restarts of system logger.
If I write my script based on this code... what I'd be adding would be
code to get 1 or 2 rgx from the cmdline, then write the hits to
various files.
I'm told there is a systematic way to add my script to solaris bootup,
and to restart it automatically if need be. But other than those are
there other `gotchas' or whatever I'm liable to need the module for?
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