Hello,

I wonder if anybody had any good suggestions to create a comphrehensive log file when running scripts. The log file should contain printed lines send to it but also contain all the warnings and errors from the STDOUT. Is their a good way to do this besides from re-directing my STDOUT in the beginning of a script direclty to a filehandle. 

open STDOUT ">whatever.dat";
# Here comes all the coding
close STDOUT;

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I don't want to remove my STDOUT, I just want in parallel capture it in a log file.

The result could be something like this 

PRINT   INFO     12December2004 "Importing JOB x into database"
PRINT   WARNING  12December2004 "Job did already exist"
STDOUT  ERROR    12December2004 "No permission to overwrite job"

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So instead of having all the time an open filehandle is their another way to just capture when something goes to the STDOUT and then write this into a file. For the print I think I can do this easily with the following subroutine but I don't have an idea to also re-direct STDOUT errors and warnings to that routine 

sub WriteLog
{
    my ($script,$type,$log) = @_;
    $logfile = $job_path.'/user/LogFile.txt';
        open (LOG, "$logfile") || die "File does not exist\n";
    print "$script\t$type\t$today\t$log\n";
    close (LOG);
}

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In reply to Creating a comprehensive log file by juo

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