I think I must not have done a good enough job explaining what my problem is, as most suggestions have been dealing with monitoring log files or how to send emails or how to still view the output while piping to perl. The problem I am having is a script is NOT writing to a log file, it is dumping its output to STDOUT. They want me to write a perl script that can either call their script or they will pipe their output to my perl script. There script never stops until it is killed, and the data pumps out pretty fast, about three lines per second. They want my script to watch the output as it comes out and send an email if it see's a certain event occur. I know how to send the email and all that, Its just when I created my array,
@array= <STDIN>;
the program would wait until it stopped recieving STDIN before it would process the array, so it wouldnt check the input as it was coming in. The above post seemed to help a bit. (doing a while loop on STDIN) cause it appears that it proccesses a chunk at a time, it looks to me like 50 lines or so at a time, but it still isn't line by line... I will continue to play with the above while loops to see if I can get something acceptable to them...
Like I said, it dumps about 3 lines per second, so if it does infact do chunks of 50 or so at a time as it is getting it, that may be fine, we can just blame the lag on email ;)

In reply to Re: Re: reading output from another script by Octavian
in thread reading output from another script by Octavian

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