Fellow monks,

I am wondering what to do if for example Compress::Zlib is not installed while using LogFile::Rotate. I searched through the archives and came up empty.

For example in this code I originally tried to use both Gzip options, but Perl would YAK at me when it failed on one. 

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sub logroll {

   my $logs = new Logfile::Rotate(
       File    => $log,
       Count   => 15,
       Gzip    => 'lib',
       Gzip    => '/usr/bin/gzip',
       Dir     => $logdir,
       Flock   => 'yes',
       Persist => 'yes'
    ) ;
    $logs->rotate() ;
}

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Can I use an or statement? Please help with this code so that if lib fails it will try gzip and not YAK at me...don't like to be YAKed at! : )

In reply to what to do if module is not installed, YIKES! by mikejones

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