Hey,

I'm building a Server-Client app with Perl/Mojolicious and JQuery. The server generates a log file using the Log::Log4perl and send the log file name back to the client so the client can see the progress. In the client I use a regular HTML A link to the log file as:

<a href="logs/blabla.log">See log file</a>

The problem is I click on the 'See log file' in the client side, the browser shows that the file is loading and stuck until the server finishing writing to the file - just then i can see the content of the file.

I configed the Log::Log4perl to autoflush and tried to use 'log4perl.appender.Syncer' and even set the buffer to 0 or 1: log4perl.appender.Buffer but nothing helped - my Log::Log4perl config is:

log4perl.appender.myFILE          = Log::Log4perl::Appender::File
    log4perl.appender.myFILE.filename =  $logfile_name
    log4perl.appender.myFILE.create_at_logtime = 1
    log4perl.appender.myFILE.mode = write
    log4perl.appender.myFILE.autoflush = 1
    log4perl.appender.myFILE.umask    = 0000,
    log4perl.appender.myFILE.layout   = Log::Log4perl::Layout::Pattern
+Layout
    log4perl.appender.myFILE.layout.ConversionPattern = [%p][%d{HH:mm}
+]: %m%n

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How can I see the content of the log file when the server is updating it?

Thanks a lot and have a nice week,

Seif.

In reply to View content of Log::Log4perl log file while logger is running by iseif

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