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 > rotated at 4AM every sunday. So, I need to change my approach. > > I found a number of modules like File::Tail and File::Tail::App. Looks > like these modules will have the same issue.
Actually, File::Tail is smart, it does all kinds of complicated determination of the normal average time between entries, and if it hasn't seen an entry in more than that amount of time, it'll assume the log got rotated away and close/re-open. Check out the Description section of the POD for more details: http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm Tim Wilde -- Tim Wilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
