Any idea to emulate tail -f

[Paul Scott]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 23:50 -0700, CTO wrote:
> You might want to try http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/. Works well on
> Linux systems. Otherwise, I'd watch the mtime on the file and fork to
> handle the change.
> 

pyinotify works really well. If you need to watch a file, simply use the
IN_MODIFY watch to fire off a notification when the file changes. Then
you can use that event in anything you may need.

I put up some basic pyinotify usage here:
http://www.paulscott.za.net/index.php?module=jabberblog&postid=ps123_2560_1240747637&action=viewsingle but if you need some more help with it, read the docs and then ask me also

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