----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Max Clark'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 11:08 AM 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. I don't think he was running from the web server, but will the shell time out in the same fashion? Shawn > > -- > 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]
