Hi Everyone
Here is a head scratcher. I am using log4perl which contains a few eval statements and sometimes see strange activity - the script (which runs as a POE process) exits after a while (clarification, runs perfectly for a while and then exits) with the error:

Global symbol xxxx requires explicit package name at (eval 226185663) line yyyy.

(xxx being an internal log4perl variable but not always the same one)

Thing is that _many_ iterations of evaluating the code have gone by (like 226185663 above) and then the error is thrown. I can only conclude that log4perl is fine and something else is affecting this.

My questions:
1) I know that the number 226185663 is the eval number (i.e. incremented each time an eval is run), but I can't see how it gets so high - that amount of iterations would take months - is there any way to print this number on the console to see if something else increments it
2) Any idea on the problem at hand? I have lots of scripts using log4perl and only this particular one fails (but only after a long running time)

Thanks

Warren

In reply to nth eval of same code creates errors by Anonymous Monk

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