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I have a perl script that gracious monks help me create that 'watches' a flat file without locking it and performs an action on each line written <CRLF> to the file. It has served me well.

Now a new file is writing about 6 lines per second, which the script can handle, but the new requirement is to remember past 'lines'.

The file is populated with the status of Big Iron jobs. Mainly Successfully completed jobs.

Successful jobs can be ignored IF the Job wasn't previous Failed. If a job is failed, the job name must be plucked and stored somehow.

Each Success Job needs to query the failed job store before it can be discarded.

Success Jobs that are found in the 'store' are acted upon to clear failed statuses previously acted upon and thus need to be purged from the 'store'.

Since I have limited access to this box (I had to beg to put the perl code on), I can't use a db to do this with, so I was wondering what would be my most efficient option to 'store' failed job names. The failed jobs would need to be purged in 8 hours (if success never occurs), since Job names are used again (daily).

Thanks

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In reply to Re: Fast Recall by stevieb
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