Bug #6048 for POE: FollowTail should follow nonexistent files

Sun Apr 18 03:16:42 2004 Ondrej.Uhlarik [...] t-systems.cz - Ticket created

Subject:	FollowTail
Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:04:55 +0100
From:	Uhlarik Ondøej <Ondrej.Uhlarik [...] t-systems.cz>
To:	<rcaputo [...] pobox.com>

Hi Rocco, when POE::Wheel::FollowTail is started to follow log file which does not exists, it messages error and kernel refuse to start. I want to follow application log, but application will start later (and the application log will be created later). In FollowTail.pm you wrote about this as TODO. What's reality ? I arranged example from Cookbook, so separated config file contains the names of files to log, and program is versatile. User does not have to change the program, only defines his "wish to log files" in config file. But the condition that file must exists bother me. Best regards Ondrej Uhlarik

Mon Apr 19 08:50:41 2004 SUNGO [...] cpan.org - Taken

Tue Nov 16 14:27:54 2004 RCAPUTO [...] cpan.org - Ticket 8460 DependsOn ticket 6048.

Sat Nov 27 11:55:50 2004 RCAPUTO [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from 'FollowTail' to 'FollowTail should follow nonexistent files'

Tue Apr 12 19:02:39 2005 RCAPUTO [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'

Tue Apr 12 19:02:39 2005 RCAPUTO [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thanks for the suggestion. When POE 0.31 is released, POE::Wheel::FollowTail will allow you to specify a Filename for a file that doesn't exist. It should patiently wait for the file to appear.