#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use File::Tail; my $dir = find_qp_log_dir() or die "unable to find QP home dir"; my $file = "$dir/main/current"; my $fh = File::Tail->new(name=>$file, interval=>1, maxinterval=>1, debug =>1, tail =>100 ); while ( defined (my $line = $fh->read) ) { my (undef, $line) = split /\s/, $line, 2; # strip off tai timestamps print $line; }; sub find_qp_log_dir { foreach my $user ( qw/ qpsmtpd smtpd / ) { my ($homedir) = (getpwnam( $user ))[7] or next; if ( -d "$homedir/log" ) { return "$homedir/log"; }; if ( -d "$homedir/smtpd/log" ) { return "$homedir/smtpd/log"; }; }; };