Dan Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of shifting some old mod_perl1 code over to > Apache2.2 and mod_perl2. Part of it is using Apache::LogFile to write > to a custom log. Well.. actually, it pipes the data to a little script > that collects up lines and forks off processes to deal with them when > it's got a handful (it gets hit a couple of million times per day, and > processing them one by one isn't particularly efficient). But that's > not entirely relevant, I suppose. > > As far as I can tell, Apache::LogFile was never ported to mp2, and I > can't find anything that will let me define my own logfile. The > Apache::LogFile solution was very convenient, as it shuts down and > restarts the collector script with the daemon, but as my C skills are > practically non-existent, I doubt very much I'd be able to port it > myself, so I'm looking for an alternative.
Porting it to mod_perl 2 would certainly possible, but require some surgery and XS/C code, unfortunately. On the bright side, the Apache logging api in 2.0 is much nicer, so it would most likely end up being less code. > Ideally, I want a single filehandle that will be opened and closed > when Apache starts up and shuts down, that I can write to from a > handler, but I'm not really sure where to start. Can anyone point me > in the right direction? You could probably handle it nicely from a LogHandler http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/http.html#PerlLogHandler Load your module at startup, opening your file then. Collect the information you are interested in logging any way you see fit ($r->notes, $r->pnotes are good candidate), then use a LogHandler to do the final step. Buffer up to a certain amount of data, check the filehandle is still good (if not, fix it), then proceed to do whatever you used to. Not quite as elegant as Apache::LogFile, but would work just fine. Porting Apache::LogFile would be nicer still,... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philippe M. Chiasson GPG: F9BFE0C2480E7680 1AE53631CB32A107 88C3A5A5 http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/ m/gozer\@(apache|cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/
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