Hi there,
I want to check on multiple growing files but I really don't know how to do it.
I know "select()" is somehow related with my question but I cannot figure how to do it... :(
I also want to "uniq"!??! the fetched values. The thing will send emails if trigered but I only want to send 1 from ocurrence every 15 minutes.
The bellow code is not regexed on the fetched values.
Many thanks
Nuno A
#!/usr/bin/perl
$naptime = 20;
$telcofile="logilestest";

open (LOGFILE, $telcofile) or die "can't open $telcofile: $!";
for (;;) {
    for ($curpos = tell(LOGFILE); <LOGFILE>; $curpos =      tell(LOGFI
+LE)) {
    print "Got Line!: $_";
    }
    sleep $naptime;
    seek(LOGFILE, $curpos, 0);  # seek to where we had been
    exit if (stat(LOGFILE))[3] == 0
}
close(LOGFILE) or die "can't close $telcofile: $!";
print "Exiting...\n";

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