Ramprasad,
thanks for the heads up on File::Tail;
unfortunatley the module isn't installed and we have a very tight
restricttions on what we can install on production servers (banks are like
that!!!).
so I'm back needing to find a way to do it with the tell and seek commands,
thanks,
Ad
Ramprasad A
Padmanabhan
To
26/07/2004 14:08 Adrian Farrell/UK/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject
Re: reading log files in real time
use File::Tail;
Ram
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 18:19, Adrian Farrell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to read log files in real time, so that each time a
> new entry appears in the file I can perform a search/query (whatever
> really!) on it.
>
> it's odd really, as I expected this to be a very common scenario and yet
I
> can find nothing on it!
>
> I think there maybe some way to achieve this using the seek and tell
> commands but I can't quite fathom it out.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> Ad
>
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