On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 19:50, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: > Please bottom post, this thread is unreadable. > > > > > Ramprasad, > > > > thanks for the heads up on File::Tail; > > > > unfortunatley the module isn't installed and we have a very tight > > restricttions on what we can install on production servers (banks are like > > that!!!). > > > > Sillieness (I know), but still silly. > > > so I'm back needing to find a way to do it with the tell and seek > commands, > > > > perldoc -q tail > perldoc -f select > > There are also several modules in IO:: on CPAN or part of core that can > help with this, particularly IO::Select. Generally the 4 argument form > of 'select' will get you where you are going > > Network Programming with Perl has excellent examples related to reading > from sockets (though any filehandle works the same) on how to use select > effectively. > > Give it a shot and post more questions if you get stuck, > > http://danconia.org > > <snip> > > > > > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 18:19, Adrian Farrell wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm looking for a way to read log files in real time, so that each > time a > > > new entry appears in the file I can perform a search/query (whatever > > > really!) on it. > > > > > > it's odd really, as I expected this to be a very common scenario and yet > > I > > > can find nothing on it! > > > > > > I think there maybe some way to achieve this using the seek and tell > > > commands but I can't quite fathom it out. > > > > > > any suggestions? > > > > > > thanks, > > > Ad > > > > > <snip>
I think you should use CPAN modules instead of reinventing the wheel. You can either convince the admin to install the modules for you ( After all there are no security issues with File::Tail ) , or you can do a special install as a non-root user. Thanks Ram > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
