You could just create a script that outputs the tail information and then does a refresh of itself. If you don't want to use CGI.pm, Try this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

# Do tail stuff here
my $tail = ...
# Replace carriage returns with br and carriage return
$tail =~ s/\n/<br>\n/g;

# print it out
print <<END_HTML
<html>
<head>
<title>Tail Script</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="2; URL=/cgi-bin/cgiscript.cgi">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Tail Program</h1>
<P>
$tail
</body>
END_HTML

Where "cgiscript.cgi" is the name of this script. (You might be able to use $0, but I haven't tried that in a CGI).

Then the browser will refresh to your current CGI every 2 seconds or whatever interval you set in the meta tag.

It's a hack, but it should work.

-Matt

In reply to Re: A Simple "Tail" Question by mlong
in thread A Simple "Tail" Question by lindex

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