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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
BEGIN { unshift @INC,"./blib/lib/";}
use File::Tail 0.91;
#$name="/var/log/syslog" unless $name=shift @ARGV;
$debug=shift @ARGV || 0;
$version=shift @ARGV || 0;
if ($#ARGV<0) {
@ARGV=qw( /var/log/syslog /var/adm/messages /var/adm/lpr.log );
}
foreach (@ARGV) {
push(@files,File::Tail->new(name=>"$_",debug=>$debug));
}
my $rin='';
if ($version==0) {
while (1) {
$nfound=File::Tail::select(undef,undef,undef,60,@files);
unless ($nfound) {
my @ints;
foreach(@files) {
push(@ints,$_->interval);
}
print "Nothing new! - ".localtime(time)."(".join(",",@ints).")\n";
}
foreach (@files) {
print $_->{"input"}." (".localtime(time).") ".$_->read unless $_->predict;
}
}
} else {
while (1) {
($nfound,$timeleft,@pending)=
File::Tail::select(undef,undef,undef,60,@files);
unless ($nfound) {
my @ints;
foreach(@files) {
push(@ints,$_->interval);
}
print "Nothing new! - ".localtime(time)."(".join(",",@ints).")\n";
}
foreach (@pending) {
print $_->{"input"}." (".localtime(time).") ".$_->read;
}
}
}