Sending ^C

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-12-21, Rick <rick207_ at op.pl> wrote:

> I am to write script which is to read data from log file which
> resides on remote host. It's a simple text file but grows to
> couple of MBytes. I want to do ssh connection to remote, and
> run 'tail -f _some_file_' command to read only new coming data
> and process them in the loop. The problem is, I don't know how
> to deal with it when log file rotates and change name. I need
> then to break running 'tail -f _some_file_' and excecute 'tail
> -f _other_file'. Can you give me hints how to do this?

import os,signal

os.kill(pid,signal.SIGINT)

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