Another option would be to run a task that does a "tail -f logfile", and pipe that to something to move the additions to the other machine (The best I could think of would be an IP socket connection). -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation RO-OC-1-13 (new loc) 200 First Street SW 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scot L. Harris Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:41 PM To: Fedora List Subject: Re: Realtime Replication of a Single File On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:55, Matt Roth wrote: > List users, > > My scenario is as follows. I have a machine that runs Asterisk VoIP PBX > software. Asterisk creates a log file that we generate reports off of. > Another machine handles the generation of these reports, which involves > significant number crunching and file I/O. By replicating the file on > the reporting machine, I'd like to decouple the resource consumption of > reporting from the VoIP server. Some of the reports are used to monitor > activities in realtime, so cronning off rsync on a large time interval > is not an option.