FollowTail and seeking around

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Nagel
Hi, after playing around with POE::Wheel::FollowTail I wonder how to get the current position inside the read logfile, something like IO::File-getpos(). I noticed Seek and Seek back but nothing to find the current position inside the logfile let's say for saving its state for a _stop event. Am

Re: FollowTail and seeking around

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Nagel
after playing around with POE::Wheel::FollowTail I wonder how to get the current position inside the read logfile, something like IO::File-getpos(). After reading the source for a while I finally use my $fh = $follow_tail-[ POE::Wheel::FollowTail::SELF_HANDLE ]; my $pos = sysseek( $fh, 0,

Re: FollowTail and seeking around

2004-10-18 Thread David Davis
You could do a tell() on the wheels' file handle which is located at $wheel-[POE::Wheel::FollowTail::SELF_HANDLE] or $wheel-[0] for short. David On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:48:44 +0200, Thomas Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after playing around with POE::Wheel::FollowTail I wonder how to get