A number of our packages produce logs of various kinds, just showing what happens at a certain date - time and recording that into a file we can look back on when debugging, etc. It turns out there are some perl modules that could help us with that, as discussed in the following chapter of "Mastering Perl"...
http://www252.pair.com/comdog/mastering_perl/Chapters/13.logging.html The two packages discussed above are Log4perl and Log::Dispatch... http://search.cpan.org/dist/Log-Log4perl/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/Log-Dispatch/ Log files turn out to be invaluable when trying to figure out what has gone right or wrong with a system, so I think the above are well worth looking into... Enjoy, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
