in reply to log file analysis

POE::Wheel::FollowTail would be the POE way to follow the end of a file. It even deals with log file rotation.

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Re^2: log file analysis
by jettero (Monsignor) on Dec 22, 2006 at 13:23 UTC

    FYI, I've been using File::Tail for quite a while and it seems to handle file rotations also. I'm going to try out the POE version though. POE is very cool.

    -Paul

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Re^2: log file analysis
by Random_Walk (Prior) on Dec 22, 2006 at 13:33 UTC

    I am using POE::Wheel::FollowTail and it is a great module. Handles log file rotation and truncation for you. The event driven system is ideal for loading various forwarders depending on what is seen in the logfile. It took me about a day to hammer together a state-full file follower that parses the file, forwards alerts and generates average stats from performance metrics in the log. POE rocks.

    Cheers,
    R.

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