Hello,

I am new to perl and am trying to write a script which will search the system event viewer for 'disk' events, log the amount of alerts and write the message into a log file.

I have called the Win32::eventviewer module, and when i run this programme i get

Goto undefined subroutine &AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD at C:/Perl/lib/Win32/EventLog.pm line 50, <MYFILE> line 3.

I'm a bit lost at what is happening. the code is below:

calling the module:

use Win32::EventLog; # Module to access event Log for step 3
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segment of code using event viewer:

$handle= New Win32::EventLog("System");
$i = 0; #sets up the counter for amount of alerts
$count = 1;
while($handle->read((EVENTLOG_SEEK_READ|EVENTLOG_FORWARDS_READ,$count,
+$event))){
if($event->{source} eq 'disk'){
Win32::EventLog::GetMessageText($event);
$i = $i +1;
open(EVENT,'>Eventviewer.log') or die 'unable to open file';
print EVENT $event->{Message}."\n";
}
else{
open(EVENT,'>Eventviewer.log') or die 'unable to open file';
print EVENT "No Disk errors Found";
}
$count=$count+1;
}

$handle->Close
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Eventually will print out the value of $i as well in a separate summary file as well as list all disk events in the eventviewer.log Any help on what im doing wrong would be appreciated - i have read the CPAN pages and anything else i can on this module but still at a lost. Thank you in advanced.

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