Shawn H Corey writes:
>> open(FILE,"<./named-pipe") or die "Can't Open ./named-pipe: $!";
>> while(){
>> print;
>> if(eof){
>> sleep 2;
>> seek (FILE,0,1);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> It seems at least to survive repeated restarts of system logger.
>>
>> If I write my script
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:30:30 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Shawn H Corey writes:
>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm
>
> Thanks that looks useful. Is there a reason why I should use that
> module as apposed to the kind of code offered in the faq about tail?
> (perldoc
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Shawn H Corey writes:
>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm
>
> Thanks that looks useful. Is there a reason why I should use that
> module as apposed to the kind of code offered in the faq about
> tail? (perldoc -q tail) as suggested by another p
Shawn H Corey writes:
> http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm
Thanks that looks useful. Is there a reason why I should use that
module as apposed to the kind of code offered in the faq about
tail? (perldoc -q tail) as suggested by another poster (Jim G).
I mean, I'm not e
Jim Gibson writes:
> On 10/19/09 Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:38 AM, "Harry Putnam"
> scribbled:
>
>
>>
>> I'm not sure what it is about the tail -f command that allows it to
>> keep reading over restarts of system logger (on Opensolaris)... but
>> how can I emulate whatever it is.. in perl?
>>
>
> T
On 10/19/09 Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:38 AM, "Harry Putnam"
scribbled:
>
> I'm not sure what it is about the tail -f command that allows it to
> keep reading over restarts of system logger (on Opensolaris)... but
> how can I emulate whatever it is.. in perl?
>
There is an FAQ:
perldoc -q tai
Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm not sure what it is about the tail -f command that allows it to
> keep reading over restarts of system logger (on Opensolaris)... but
> how can I emulate whatever it is.. in perl?
Have you looked at File::Tail
http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm ?
With a linux background I'm used to being able to my the system logger
right to a named pipe buy means of a `|' (pipe) symbol in syslog.conf
*.* |/var/log/fifo
But on Opensolaris the system logger is enough different than the
sysklogd daemon on linux that the `|' sy
