thoughts on tracking log file

perlknight has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow monks, I need some ideas on how to track log file. Basically I need to run it in daemon mode, so Proc::Daemon is in. I want to to spit out the most current line and also track if the file has been rotated. Any thoughts on this? Is there a module out there that already do this? Thanks.

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Re: thoughts on tracking log file by shigetsu (Hermit) on Feb 16, 2007 at 03:36 UTC
I don't /exactly/ grok your question. Nevertheless, see for yourself: CPAN search Logging for System Admin Scripts scp progress logging RFC: A simple and badly-named logging module Logging for 'Dummy' users logging and cron jobs logging to database or file Super Search	[reply]
Re: thoughts on tracking log file by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 16, 2007 at 03:55 UTC
A Super Search would likely turn up interesting stuff here for you. A key word in your search is 'Tail'. The search ?node_id=3989;BIT=log%20file%20tail;re=N;Wi (click the link) turns up File::Tail with top fill logs, Logging details to log file, Perl equivilant to tail -f, perlish way to 'tail -100 $logfile', File::Tail on win32 and Tailing/Streaming a Log File into Any Web Browser from Daemon among many others that may contain the answer you want (it's a little unclear from your question!). DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]