[JaxPM] dynamic external program output from long-running perl program

[Nate Campi]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er Nate Campi <nate at campi.cc> wrote -

begin  Nate Campi quotation of Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0800:
> On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er Nate Campi <nate at campi.cc> wrote -
> 
> I have a long-running perl program that I want to use to capture the
> output of different (UNIX) system commands. This is actually a perl
> module for AOL Intant Messenger (found it on CPAN). I'd eventually 
> like to be able to query our monitoring system for the current and 
> last alerts via AIM. I'll probably supplement our current email/pager
> alerts with AIM alerts, too (but that's another script ;)
> 
> The problem is that any program output is gathered at compile time once,
> or if using eval at run time only once. For testing I want to get the
> current output of `date`, and I'll know it's working.
> 
> Anyone know of a way I can do what I want here?

I ended up working this out, thanks anyways.
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