Alright, what's a "tail -f"? -----Original Message----- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 11:09 AM To: 'Max Clark'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: "tail -f" with cgi
> -----Original Message----- > From: Max Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:44 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: "tail -f" with cgi > > > Hi, > > I am trying to write a cgi program to "tail -f" a log file. I > have a perl > script that will open and print the log file, however it > closes as soon as > it reads whatever is in the file at that particular time. How > do I mimic > "tail -f" functionality? CPAN has a File::Tail module. But a CGI script isn't designed to be long-running like this. The web server will eventually time out the request and kill your script. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
