Re: monitoring file like tail -f in perl

[Xavier Noria]

On May 29, 2006, at 18:19, Ken Foskey wrote:

I want to monitor a daemon's logs that updates randomly through the day and night. Is there a way to open the log file and read the new records

as they come in the same way as tail -f does?

Sure, with File::Tail for example.

-- fxn



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