On 30 Aug 2007 at 6:32, Peter Scott wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:32:01 +0100, Beginner wrote:
> > I want all the output plus any error messages to got to a log file. I 
> > used the BEGIN block to direct STDERR into the file:
> > 
> > BEGIN { 
> >       open(STDERR, ">>/usr/local/myreports/report.log") || die "Can't 
> > write to file: $!\n";
> > }
> > 
> > use strict; 
> > use warnings;
> > ...
> > ### Start some logging ###
> > my $log;
> > my $logfile = "$dist_dir/report.log";
> > open($log,">>$logfile") || die "Can't write to $logfile: $!\n";
> > print $log "$0 called at ", &tm," with pid $$\n";
> 
> Why are you using a BEGIN block?  Why not just make it the first
> executable statement?  Do you have any other 'use' statements in the
> program?

Yes I do. Several standard modules plus one or 2 of my own. The BEGIN 
block adds the path to my modules as well so it really looks like 
this at the moment (I have tested Mumia's INIT yet):

BEGIN { unshift @INC, '/etc/perl';
        $| = 1;
        open(STDERR, ">>/usr/local/myreports/report.log") || die 
"Can't write to file: $!\n";
}

use MY::MakePDF;
use MY::SendEmail;
use MY::Number;
use MY::PDF_Handler;
use File::Basename;
use strict;
use warnings;

I want the STDERR from those modules to go to the log file also.


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