I have a daemon process which keeps a Dancer instance up, as well as periodically runs some tests in a child process.

That daemon is logging fine with log4perl, config as follows:

my $conf = q(
    log4perl.category.ess2_loader=DEBUG, LOGFILE
    log4perl.category.Tools=INFO, LOGFILE

    log4perl.appender.LOGFILE=Log::Log4perl::Appender::File
    log4perl.appender.LOGFILE.filename=/var/log/error.log
    log4perl.appender.LOGFILE.mode=append
 
    log4perl.appender.LOGFILE.layout=PatternLayout
    log4perl.appender.LOGFILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %P [%r] %F %
+L %c - %m%n
);
Log::Log4perl::init( \$conf );

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In the daemon itself I get a logger with my $log = Log::Log4perl::get_logger("supervisor"); and that works as expected.

I can't get logging to work in modules, annoyingly with one exception - when the supervisor spawns a child to run tests, that child executes a module which calls a logger like my $log = Log::Log4perl::get_logger("Tools::run_tests"); That again works ok

Trying to repeat that in other modules, by adding a category in the main config and then getting a logger in the same way fails - I get an empty logger where only the category is defined.

I don't know what I'm missing, it probably is too obvious for me to get it...

In reply to Gettign a logger with Log::Log4perl by nikmit

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