Monitoring rotating logfiles

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

Hi, I want to monitor rotating log files under Solaris. I have looked at various Perl modules and I am wondering which module would be suited best for this task. The logfile which I want to monitor grows about 500-800 lines per second in average - thus performance is also important. Thanks in advance!

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Re: Monitoring rotating logfiles by McDarren (Abbot) on Oct 18, 2007 at 12:52 UTC
File::Tail is the first thing that comes to mind. As far as I am aware, it manages okay with rotating logfiles. Can't really comment on performance, but you could suck it and see. Cheers, Darren :)	[reply]
Re: Monitoring rotating logfiles by oha (Friar) on Oct 18, 2007 at 13:10 UTC
not perl related, but if the log you must monitor are created by syslog, you can open a fifo and instruct syslog to write to it too. (Note that the fifo must exists before syslog starts) Oha	[reply]