On 03/09/2012 09:45 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 11:53 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>> Just thought I'd share with the group and experience I just had.  In perhaps 
>> the hope of sparing others of the PITA I just went through.
> ...
> > use Common;  # contains timestamp()
> > use Date::Manip;
> ...
> > Shouldn't this have thrown SOME kind of error/warning what was going on?
>
> You might want to make that suggestion to the module maintainer:
>
>     https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Date-Manip
>
>
> Ultimately, the only way to protect yourself against changes in modules 
> and/or Perl itself is to write (and run) regression tests.
>
>
> > "In circuit" the code runs as a daemon and errors aren't easy to get at.
>
> Log::Log4perl is very useful in general, and has special features for 
> debugging running services:
>
>     http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Log-Log4perl-1.36/lib/Log/Log4perl.pm
>
>
> HTH,
>
> David
>
Thanks David. 
Very helpful suggestions.  Ultimately it turned out there were multiple errors 
on my part that were significant contributors to the situation.  Too late at 
night coding is my only
excuse.


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