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In article <[email protected]>, "Perl Authors Upload Server" <[email protected]> wrote: > The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: > > modid: Logfile::Read > DSLIP: bdpO2 > description: Read log files, resume reads, rotated files > userid: JANPAZ (Jan Pazdziora) > When reading log files, you only want to process the line once, > while also be able to find new lines that were appended since the > last read, and while also recovering (and not losing data) if the > log file got rotated. This is what Logfile::Read attempts to do. How about saying something about those goals in the name? For instance, there's a POE wheel called "FollowTail" that does both of those, and I think it's name does a good job distinguishing it from reading a single file once. :) -- brian d foy (one of many PAUSE admins), http://pause.perl.org PAUSE instructions: http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about Archives: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules Please send all messages back to [email protected] with no CC to me.
