Hello Monks!

I have a situation where I must debug a long running Perl process that is crashing once a week. I'm using the Perl debugger to accomplish this.

The problem is that the output from the Perl debugger is very large, size-wise, and since the Perl process is long running it is highly desirable that I rotate the log every couple of hours and compress old log files.

My usual methods of  cat /dev/null > debug.log and  echo > debug.log do not appear to be working properly; I assume this is because the file remains opened & locked by the Perl debugger? Is there another way to do this properly?

I suspect that this may not really be a Perl issue and more of a file-locking thing, however I'm curious to know if anyone has bothered to tackle this sort of thing before. Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
booger

Update:

FWIW, the line I'm using to invoke the Perl debugger looks something like this:

 bash$ PERLDB_OPTS="NonStop LineInfo=debug.log frame=4 AutoTrace" perl -d script.pl --daemon

Resolved! Thank you everyone!

In reply to Rotating output from the Perl debugger by Booger

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