On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:15:21PM -0500, brian d foy 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. :)
I read it you don't like Logfile::Read, so how about Logfile::Tail (and logfile-tail instead of its logfile-cat script)? -- Jan Pazdziora
