> Hello Derek, > > nice idea. But there is a problem with the tail > command in your perl script. > In /etc/logadm.conf is a line for rotating svc logs. > Each time a logfile got rotated, the tail command > wouldn't catch log lines any more. > In other words: after rotating a logfile (truncating > file or creating a new file) by logadm, tail command > begins to just hang around and doing (almost) > nothing. > > Possible solution: There is a linux (or GNU) version > of tail which is able to catch this type of file > change. I guess gtail may be available from software > companion!? > > Possible solution 2: write perl code to do proper > logfile reading and catching rotated logfiles.
I think this is why I used /usr/xpg4/bin/tail in the program.. I don't remember since I wrote this a while back. I'm pretty sure the program doesn't have the problem you mentioning though. I've run this for a few months on some servers at work and no problems. I'll look more into it. This message posted from opensolaris.org
