reading a growing file in perl

• How do I read a file which is constantly updating? (Stack Overflow) [link]
• How can I read from continuously updated file in Perl? (Stack Overflow) [link]

Approaches:

• File::Tail (or one of its sisters) is your friend (preferred!)
• use this (together with sleep(...)) for getting EOF reset: seek(LOG, 0, 1) (if you must stay with vanilla perl)

Wrote my 1st script making use of File::Tail today, a "main log file" referring to short other log files. Now I read all of them using File::Tail. Looks good and rather versatile.