# Get our hostname for logging and notifications
our $host = hostname();

# Subroutine to append a new MRTG entry to the daemon log
sub write_mrtg_log{
  my( $arg1, $arg2 ) = @_;
  my $log_entry = defined $arg1 ? $arg1 : 'Empty Log Entry';
  my $log_entry_category = defined $arg2 ? $arg2 : 'SCHEDULER';
  my $daemon_log_timestamp = localtime()->strftime('%b %d %H:%M:%S');
  open(my $fd, ">>/var/log/daemon");
  print $fd $daemon_log_timestamp.' '.our $host.' mrtg[]: ['.$log_entry_category.']: '.$log_entry.'.'."\n";
  close $fd;
}