Re: reading log files in real time

From: Adrian Farrell (Adrian.Farrell_at_instinet.co.uk)
Date: 07/27/04 

To: "Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <ramprasad.padmanabhan" <ramprasad.padmanabhan@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:00:11 +0100

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
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             26/07/2004 14:08 Adrian Farrell/UK/INSTINET@Instinet
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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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