Yes I can use CPAN, but not where I work, for a VERY big bank and everything is tied down around the world - would take months to get the latest version of the module into the company and onto the NFS shares :-(

I'm not in a position to pull a copy of anything in. So I'll live with it.

A possible workaround would be to change the level designations that go in the log so that FATAL reads ERROR, ERROR reads WARN, WARN reads INFO, INFO reads DEBUG and DEBUG reads TRACE.

I'd like to make DEBUG read as VERBOSE anyway, but can't figure out how to do that. And maybe I shouldn't try!

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