Re: Rotating output from the Perl debugger

[tall_man]

I would suggest using Log::Dispatch::FileRotate for this. You can use LineInfo to direct the logging output to a pipe, running a script like this (not tested):

use strict;

use Log::Dispatch::FileRotate;

my $file = Log::Dispatch::FileRotate->new( name      => 'file1',
                                       min_level => 'info',
                                       filename  => 'Somefile.log',
                                       mode      => 'append' ,
                                       TZ        => '0:0:0:0:2:00:0',
                                       DatePattern => 'yyyy-dd-HH',
                                      );



while (<>) {
   $file->log( level => 'info', message => $_);
}

[Booger]

Thanks, tall_man!

I actually did something similar to your suggestion (not having thought to look at the node to see if anyone had posted something interesting -- duh)

I did this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use strict;
use constant SIZEOF_100MB => 104857600;

$| = 1;

my $filename = 'debugfile';

while (<>) {
    open LOGFILE, ">>$filename" ||
      die "Unable to open '$filename': $!";
    print LOGFILE $_;
    close LOGFILE;

    my @stats = stat($filename);
    my $bsize = $stats[7];

    if ( $bsize > SIZEOF_100MB ) {
        my @localtime = split / +|:/, localtime();
        shift @localtime;
        pop @localtime;

        my $new = "${filename}_" . join '_', @localtime;
  
        rename $filename, $new;

        system("gzip $new");
    } 
}

1;

It's probably not as elegant as your solution (I wasted more lines) but it does work.

Thanks again!