looking for a high-power logging module

princepawn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to instrument my module with loglevel type functionality. Here is what I want:

A program constructs an object and one key-value parm is LogLevel => $LEV
The program, as it runs, prints to STDERR all information of that LogLevel or higher
Preferably this would be a part of the standard Perl distro because I don't want people to have to install additional modules, but I can get them to install them if need be

Thanks! (to the monestary and all answerers of the questions)

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Re: looking for a by derby (Abbot) on Mar 22, 2002 at 14:06 UTC
princepawn, Not just one but many Apache::Log, CGI::Log, ~~Log::LogInfo~~. -derby oops: should be Log::Info. Sorry.	[reply]
Re: looking for a by bluto (Curate) on Mar 22, 2002 at 17:32 UTC
You'll have to install it, but Log::Dispatch will do this, and much more if you need it to. It's kind of like syslog in that one log statement can send info to one or more destinations, each customizable by the log level. I find this invaluable when I want to write lots of debug information to a log file and at the same time send less information to STDERR and even less to an email -- without using 3 different print statements. Speaking of syslog, I've never used Sys::Syslog, which comes with perl. I have no idea if/how to send stuff to stderr with it though. Different systems support different syslog features so yours might allow it. It's probably not worth the effort of setting it up though, esp if you want portable code. bluto	[reply]