Thomas wrote:

Yes this is what I ended up doing. I noticed that if I do a dir /X then the 8.3 format is shown, but then I ran into the next problem and this is wildcard filnames ie. syslog*.log as the logs are named with the date in the filename. This require a total rewrite of the bb-msgs.pl script as far as I could see.

So I told the managers that this was not possible given the timeframe on a windows box. :-( no happy about it.

Thanks for replying.

/Thomas

ZanDAhaR wrote:

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Thomas wrote:

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Hi ! Any of you had to monitor logs on a windows box where the file is located in a directory with spaces in ?

bb-msgs.pl version 1.1 breaks if I try.

/Thomas

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Have you tried taking out the space ? Convert the folder to dos 8.3 format so for eg Program Files ends up being progra~1 Everything gets truncated to 6 chars + ~1. I know its Perl and not dos but it cant hurt to try :)

Allan

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I'm sure someone else could help you out with the perl expression but I think maybe it should be %syslog* or something. I'm not a perl junkie so dont take my word as gospel :)

HTH

Allan