I was testing that theory and it is in fact what is happening. The modified code below works and does not drop the first entry... also a bit easier to read. I would reccomend using while(1) for continous loops. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $LogFile="C:/test.txt";

my $naptime=3;
my $logpos;
#Reads LOGFILE continuously
open(LOGFILE,"<$LogFile") ||  die "Couldn't open file Status - $!\n";
while (1) 
{
    sleep $naptime;

    $logpos = tell(LOGFILE);
    
    while(<LOGFILE>)
    {
        print;
    }

    seek(LOGFILE, $logpos, 0);  # seek to last known 
 }

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<edit>the more I thought about it you don't even need the $logpos variable. Just use seek(LOGFILE,0,0) to seek to the beginning,since it seemed like what you wanted to do. Although if you have a specific point in the file you want to start reading from then you will need to predefine it and even then you still wouldn't need the call to tell(LOGFILE) I believe</edit>

Hope this helps.
Grygonos

In reply to Re: Re: Losing first entry of Apache log by Grygonos
in thread Losing first entry of Apache log by onegative

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