Capture Net:::SMTP debug output in a CGI script

bgaber has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a script that sends an e-mail using Net::SMTP. It works fine when run from the command line as root. However, when run as a cgi-bin as the webserver's user, apache, it fails with $! = Permission Denied. I want to set Debug to 1 and capture the debug output. How do I do that in a CGI script?

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Re: Capture Net:::SMTP debug output in a CGI script by gmargo (Hermit) on Oct 28, 2009 at 15:41 UTC
According to the man page, Net::SMTP debugging is sent to STDERR (see the parent class Net::Cmd documentation.) Since you're using Apache, the STDERR stream will go to the normal Apache error log file, perhaps `/var/log/apache2/error.log`. If the above is not what you want, and you truly want to "capture" the output, for further processing by your script, you'll need to redirect STDERR to a file. The open function documentation shows how to save and restore STDERR.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Capture Net:::SMTP debug output in a CGI script by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Oct 28, 2009 at 15:45 UTC
Try CGI::Debug. Put `use CGI::Debug` on the second row, and you're good to go.	[reply] [d/l]