Thanks for the constructive criticism tilly. I really appreciate it. That's the kind of advise I was looking for when I wrote this node. I'm still new to OO programming, so I'm expecting to get my toes stepped on before I have a decent set of code. As far as the Exporter, I was assuming that the particular user of the module may or may not use the methods as methods, but as function calls. I guess the easier way to handle the dual usage (which I believe is done in Tk) is to just write code that can handle both (of course, being somewhat new to OO, that might be a little easier said than done). With every little piece of advise, my code just gets that much better.

One of the problems I was having with using method calls instead of function calls was that for some reason or another, when the $client->rpc($obj->func($params)) is done, it seems to miss the method altogether. I guess this may be a bug in the RPC module that I'm using (reference: Advanced Perl Programming). I'll have to play with that some more.

As far as the logging procedure goes, I'm stuck between two methods:

a.) Trying to flush to a log file as fast as possible (since I will have to check against this log to see if a particular user exists)
b.) Holding the log for a period of time in ram and then flushing after a set amount of time (I'm still not sure if this is even possible).

I understand what you're saying that I'm not thinking of an interface (in terms of logging), but in this case, I have to think of reading and writing the log within seconds of each other. Hmmm... I just had an idea. Is it possible to block while the log file is in read or write mode? In other words, if one user has called the 'usr_create' method, is it possible to block all other calls while the first one is finishing? I'm still somewhat new to the IPC/RPC idea, so I may just be guessing madness. If so, the interface for logging would be a little easier to implement (since I could force the other clients to wait just a second while I read and write to the log file).

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