On Feb 20, 2008 8:33 AM, Kiran Divakaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Slight change in requirement . I have a file which gets appended periodically > by different processes off and on . > This file needs to be read off by another process which writes the read > information to a database. > The second process needs to read the flat file from where last left and > continue from there. > > Is pipe still a good option because the flat file will be appended by off and > on processes and > not a continuously running process. But the other process running will be > reading the flat file as and > when there is new data.
tail? syslogd? Give us a concrete example of what you're trying to do from the beginning - I'm beginning to suspect that this question is a case of 'this is my solution, I can't implement it' when what we need is 'this is my problem, what is the right solution?' -- PJH http://shabbleland.myminicity.com/sec
