----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Max Clark'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: RE: "tail -f" with cgi


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Max Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:44 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: "tail -f" with cgi
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to write a cgi program to "tail -f" a log file. I 
> > have a perl
> > script that will open and print the log file, however it 
> > closes as soon as
> > it reads whatever is in the file at that particular time. How 
> > do I mimic
> > "tail -f" functionality?
> 
> CPAN has a File::Tail module.
> 
> But a CGI script isn't designed to be long-running like this. The
> web server will eventually time out the request and kill your script.

I don't think he was running from the web server, but will the shell time out in the 
same fashion?

Shawn

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