How can you output Error messages to a different logfile?

Question

In Perl you can:

print STDERR "bla bla bla"; 

...and Apache will dump it to /etc/httpd/logs/error_log .

But what if I want to send some error/warning messages to a different log file?

How can I create a function to do this in Perl?

print MYLOGFILE "bla bla bla"

...to render to /logs/my_favorite_log ?

Answer 1

You should probably take a look at some of the formal logging packages for Perl, like log4perl . Undoubtedly, there are others as well.

Answer 2

Use Log::Trivial

use Log::Trivial;
my $logfile = Log::Trivial->new(log_file => "logs/my_favourite.log");
$logfile->set_level(3);
$logfile->write(comment => "bla bla bla");

Answer 3

I would recommend looking at Log::Log4perl , as suggested by Will. There is good introduction tutorial available .

For small scripts there is also quick setup with easy mode .