Net::Daemon::Log - Utility functions for logging # Choose logging method: syslog or Win32::EventLog $self->{'facility'} = 'mail'; # Default: Daemon $self->{'logfile'} = undef; # Default # Choose logging method: stderr $self->{'logfile'} = 1; # Choose logging method: IO handle my $file = IO::File->new("my.log", "a"); $self->{'logfile'} = $file; # Debugging messages (equivalent): $self->Log('debug', "This is a debugging message"); $self->Debug("This is a debugging message"); # Error messages (equivalent): $self->Log('err', "This is an error message"); $self->Error("This is an error message"); # Fatal error messages (implies 'die') $self->Fatal("This is a fatal error message"); THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE. It is *only* 'Alpha' because the interface (API) is not finalised. The Alpha status does not reflect code quality or stability. Net::Daemon::Log is a utility class for portable logging messages. By default it uses syslog (Unix) or Win32::EventLog (Windows), but logging messages can also be redirected to stderr or a log file.

Generic Logging
$self->Log($level, $msg, @args); This is the generic interface. The logging level is in syslog style, thus one of the words 'debug', 'info', 'notice', 'err' or 'crit'. You'll rarely need info and notice and I can hardly imagine a reason for crit (critical). In 95% of all cases debug and err will be sufficient. The logging string $msg is a format string similar to printf.

Utility methods
$self->Debug($msg, @args); $self->Error($msg, @args); $self->Fatal($msg, @args); These are replacements for logging with levels debug and err. The difference between the latter two is that Fatal includes throwing a Perl exception.

Chossing a logging target
By default logging will happen to syslog (Unix) or EventLog (Windows). However you may choose logging to stderr by setting $self->{'logfile'} = 1; This is required if neither of syslog and EventLog is available. An alternative option is setting $self->{'logfile'} = $handle; where $handle is any object supporting a print method, for example an IO::Handle object. Usually the logging target is choosen as soon as you call $self->Log() the first time. However, you may force choosing the target by doing a $self->OpenLog(); before calling Log the first time. The Multithreading capabitities of this class are depending heavily on the underlying classes Sys::Syslog, Win32::EventLog or IO::Handle. If they are thread safe, you can well assume that this package is too. (The exception being that you should better call $self->OpenLog() before threading.) Net::Daemon is Copyright (C) 1998, Jochen Wiedmann Am Eisteich 9 72555 Metzingen Germany Phone: +49 7123 14887 Email: joe@ispsoft.de All rights reserved. You may distribute this package under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file. Net::Daemon(3), Sys::Syslog(3), Win32::EventLog(3), IO::Handle(3)