in reply to How do I tail -f a file if it is NFS mounted?

'perldoc -q tail' might help you, if no perldoc installed here is from perlfaq5
How do I do a "tail -f" in perl? First try seek(GWFILE, 0, 1); The statement "seek(GWFILE, 0, 1)" doesn't change the current p +osition, but it does clear the end-of- file condition on the handle, so that the next <GWFILE> makes P +erl try again to read something. If that doesn't work (it relies on features of your stdio imple +mentation), then you need something more like this: for (;;) { for ($curpos = tell(GWFILE); <GWFILE>; $curpos = tell +(GWFILE)) { # search for some stuff and put it into files } # sleep for a while seek(GWFILE, $curpos, 0); # seek to where we had bee +n } If this still doesn't work, look into the POSIX module. POSIX +defines the clearerr() method, which can remove the end of file condition on a filehandle. The meth +od: read until end of file, clearerr(), read some more. Lather, rinse, repeat. There's also a File::Tail module from CPAN.

but the data transfer over NFS will not be live, there would be minimal delay if you expect live data.