Yes I do that in one of my projects.

Although I don't do exactly what you suggest, (logging), as my application is browser based I have a link called "Report Bug".

This takes the user to a HTML form where they can enter their support request/bug report, and there are several text-fields which are automatically filled with details of their environment, their perl version, etc.

This is then mailed to me using a secure formmail-type script.

In my case this works really nicely, since the report contains many interesting details of their installation.

In your setup that might not be appropriate, but my software is a miniture HTTP server, which users interact with via their browsers so the solution is ideal.

Steve
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In reply to Re: Logging for 'Dummy' users by skx
in thread Logging for 'Dummy' users by jdtoronto

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