I'm trying to read the application event log of a windows 2000 machine using win32::eventlog. This process works fine for the system log, but for the application log, it never returns any data. The code is as follows: 
use Win32::EventLog;

 #print "comp name = ", $ENV{ComputerName}, "\n";
 $myServer="\\\\<snip>"; 
 print "\n$myServer\n";
 $handle=Win32::EventLog->new("Application",  $myServer)
 #$handle=Win32::EventLog->new("Application",  $ENV{ComputerName})
 
        or die "Can't open Application EventLog\n";

 
 print "handle = $handle\n";

 $handle->GetNumber($recs)

        or die "Can't get number of EventLog records\n";

 $handle->GetOldest($base)

        or die "Can't get number of oldest EventLog record\n";

 while ($x < $recs) {

        $handle->Read(EVENTLOG_FORWARDS_READ|EVENTLOG_SEEK_READ,

                                  $base+$x,

                                  $hashRef)

                or die "Can't read EventLog entry #$x\n";

        if ($hashRef->{Source} eq "EventLog") {

                Win32::EventLog::GetMessageText($hashRef);

                print "Entry $x: $hashRef->{Message}\n";

        }

        $x++;

 }

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In reply to Reading win2000 application event logs with perl by RichardH

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