Is there another way I should be approaching this task?
How about not using tail? I'm just ripping this off from the 'Perl
Cookbook' but:
for (;;) { #ever and ever
while (<MAILLOG>)
# Do your thing
}
sleep $awhile;
seek(MAILLOG, 0, 1);
}
They claim that doing a seek will reset the EOF to the new position if there
is one. They also have a solution using IO::Handle and its clearerr()
method. Pretty much the same thing but add a use IO::Handle at the top and
change the seek to MAILLOG->clearerr();
Peter C.
