Hi,

Previously, when on our old server, we used to be able to use this to print out to the perl_error_log (so we could track stuff in the code); 
use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
print STDERR RED, "foo \n", RESET;

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..and then when the code was run, it would print out the word "foo" in the perl_error_log, but in red.

However, since we upgraded the server to a more powerful one (with the same host), and I believe to the latest versions of Perl + Apache, we have got a bit of a problem!

The logs now come up like:

[Fri Mar 11 03:22:43 2011] [error] [client 90.200.254.240] \x1b[32mSub foo\x1b[0m

Which is absolutly no use to us :(

Is there any way of getting this to work on the latest version of Perl + Apache? (maybe with another module?)

UPDATE - this is interesting! It works fine in a basic perl script, just not when being show in the perl_error_log :/

Maybe some "escaping" is being done in those log files? Right PITA if it does!!! I also wanna get rid of the timestamp stuff in the error log, but it seems like we can't :(

UPDATE 2: Never mind - I found a work around. Simply doing:

open (STDERR,">>/var/home/voyage/voyageforum.com/logs/custom_logs") || die $!;

..and then the output is placed perfectly into that file, colouring and all!

TIA!

Andy

In reply to Term::ANSIColor in Apache2? by ultranerds

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