-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 i want to write a little tool for my school with apache/squid in perl. the squid writes it's access to /var/log/squid/access.log and this perl-scipt should go and collect these informations. the /etc/cron.daily/squid - script rotates the logs so if they get too full this stores it to a new file. i would like to write the perlscript to update, i mean to read the logs, about every 5 min and then write it to a file but what if the log gets rotated? 1. i loose some data 2. maybe my script which may be started with "tail -f access.log" may hung does any1 have a good idea to solve this? tnx for everything ;-)))) joachim === i even looked at source from other projects but there seem to be non like this (calamaris) but this is not what i want this does the same but daily - -- From: Joachim Schiele [ http://www.dune2.de || Linux - my way! ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjsFd8cACgkQeGYPq/O+yeoqpgCgim70CP6fVF2rhA33CktXTmrX rjIAnj5YS9ysdB2YbSm68iBuDLV/hNow =bZPf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]