I am to provide some custom logging in my mod_perl application. Omitting some unnecessary details, I need to store some information after processing each request, putting this info into some central log (be it file or database) common for all apache processes and (if possible) common for multiple machines.
I would like to ask for any suggestions/hints/patterns/... but there are also some specific qustions: 1) Apache somehow gathers notes from multiple processes into single access.log and error.log. Is it possible to reuse this functionality somehow for writing my custom information somewhere else? Considering such functionality is already present I would not like to reimplement logic protecting from simultaneous write from multiple processess... 2) Looking at the name, seems it is LogHandler where custom logging should take place. But does it really give real advantage over just logging on the end of PerlHandler? If so, how should I pass data between handlers - just stick to some perl global variable or use pnotes? 3) Are there any tools of 'gather logs from multiple machines to the central location' you would recommend? -- ( Marcin Kasperski | Communication takes place between people, documents ) ( http://www.mk.w.pl | are secondary. (Booch) ) (----------------------------------------------------------------------------) ( Nie gub zgłoszeń błędów: http://www.mk.w.pl/narzedzia/narzedzia_bugewid )
