Caveat: I am not adept at this despite doing some lately. The main reason I succeeded was haukex’s help. That said, my first impression would be what you say, a websocket doing tail. I would read the the process from tail -F through a pipe—with one of the IPC:: modules probably but I’d have to read a few nodes to remember which is best here—and just loop through $x lines or bytes, throwing them away if there is no client, and sending the pipe stream output to any connected clients in close to real time.

I am too lazy / pretend-busy tonight to try to hack something up for you, despite wanting a log tailer just like this for a couple of years, but here are some nice code jumping off points: Mixing asynchronous data feed with synchronous program flow control (replies) and tail file and websocket stream and Re: Architecture advice, proxy or rebroadcast websocket.

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