I usually pay real close attention to logs when i'm writing/debugging something. My standard way of doing this has become 
BEGIN {
    use CGI::Carp qw( carpout );
    carpout(\*LOG) if open(LOG,'>>'.__FILE__.'.err.log');
}

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Occassionally I throw in '>>'.__FILE__.'.'.$$.'.err.log'); or '>>'.__FILE__.'.'.time.'.err.log');, but very very rarely.

Lately I tend to add "verbosity" levels to things I write so that in "production" environment, verbosity is off (only if hell breaks loose, does the error log get filled).

I rarely "rotate" logs, as i've not written anything that gets massively used.

Since my logging needs have been simple, every once in a while I check on me logs and if they're bigger then a 100k, i remove them (after looking closely, and quieting warnings, usually use of unitialized this or that, cause not all perl's have the "warnings" pragma)

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In reply to Re: naming conventions for logs by PodMaster
in thread naming conventions for logs by aufrank

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