Hello Perl Gurus, I need your help!
Here is the situation: The following script searchs for a certain error in an increasemental errorlog_file, and print out the result. Note that when the size of errolog_file grow into 5M there is a process that prunes the errorlog_file, makes its size become 0. Then the errorlog_file continue to increase again. The problem i'm facing is my seach_error.pl seems stop to read the increasemental errorlog_file after it was pruned. My question are: 1. Is there a way to make search_error.pl continue to read the errorlog_file after it was pruned without restarting the script. 2. In the situation I have to restart the script (like in case of machine have been bounced), I dont want the script starts reading from the beginning of errorlog_file, I want it skips to the line where it stopped. How can I make this happens. Thanks in advance for your input. Loan Tran ----------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl # usage: search_error.pl errorlog_file open (FILE,"errorlog_file") || die "cannot open file errorlog_file"; for(;;){ while(<FILE>){ if ($_ =~ /Error: 21||timeslice|Error: LOG FULL|Error: SPACE|Error: from dump|sddone:|udunmirror:|nopen: No virtual sockets available|endpoints failed|timed out|THREAD FATAL ERROR|is shutdown|operation terminated|Memory Corruption Found/){ print "Serious! : $_ \n"; }#end if }#end while sleep 5; seek(INPUT,0,1); # reset end-of-file error }#end for __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]