Hi ! You might want to look at my implementation of a tail -F : https://svn.sat.qc.ca/trac/miville/browser/trunk/py/miville/utils/tail.py Let me know if you have better than that. a
2009/9/1 Rob Hoadley <hoad...@gmail.com>: > I've handled this problem 2 ways: 1) for almost realtime... using > twisted and .read() file as glyph mentioned and 2) used splunk and > it's functionality to send search "matching" data to a program that in > turn does http notification. This is at 5 min search intervals. > > As previous posters have mentioned, tail's behavior is inconsistent on > different platforms. If your OS platform never changes then you could > use tail -f as a process protocol. I originally started doing my work > using the process protocol and tail -f but needed the software to work > on 3 versions of linux and os x. The read() way of doing it was > ultimately the most cross platform way I could come up with. Good > luck. > > -rob > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Martin-Louis Bright<mlbri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> PyInotify only allows you to detect file changes, leaving you with the task >> of asynchronously sending http requests. >> >> -martin >> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mikhail <ter...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Martin-Louis Bright <mlbright <at> gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> > >>> > >>> > I am using linux, and I want the daemon to be as responsive as possible >>> > to log >>> events, so I think I would rather have it sit on the same box as where the >>> log >>> is produced. (Perhaps I'm wrong about this?) So I'm going to try Cary's >>> ProcessProtocol approach, and if that doesn't work, Glyph's LoopingCall >>> with a >>> read() approach. >>> > >>> >>> You can also use pyinotify to watch your log file changes. >>> http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify >>> >>> Regards, >>> Mikhail >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Twisted-Python mailing list >>> Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com >>> http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Twisted-Python mailing list >> Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com >> http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net http://www.puredata.info/Members/aalex _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
