Re: tail -f into web page

* Thus wrote CurlyBraces Technologies ( Pvt ) Ltd (curlybraces@dialogsl.net): > hi friends , > > I have a log file that is creating while running a perl script.That log can i read ( using, > tail -f log.file ) in to a web interface from php ? > Is there any possibility , plz help .........., You can possibly do something with using popen and some connection handling functions. /* ensure the script wont time out */ set_time_limit(0); /* send data after each echo */ ini_set('implicit_flush', 1); /* watch for canceled request */ ignore_user_abort(false); /* open a process file pointer */ $pfp = popen('tail -f log.file', 'r'); /* make sure it worked */ if (! $pfp ) { die('Can\'t open file'); } /* continue while the user hasn't aborted or we've still have a connection */ while (! connection_aborted() ) { /* get a line and echo the contents from the file pointer opened */ echo fgets($pfp); } /* close the process file pointer */ fclose($pfp); See: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.connection-handling.php http://php.net/popen http://php.net/ini_set Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."