Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I have a couple of batch jobs that run every couple of hours. They scrape > web sites and populate an MSAccess database. > > I would like to write a GUI to monitor them. Presently all my diagnostic > print statements just scroll by and they are very hard to read. > > I would not want the batch processes to hang just because the GUI logger was > not being run. >
Right, you should keep the two processes separated. > I was thinking writing a GUI client that listens for UDP packets and > displays the results using wxWindows -- maybe one tabbed pane per server > process. Each tabbed pain would allow me to view the progress of each > process. > Yikes, sounds like over kill for such a simple task. > What would be the best way to take all these diagnostic print statements > that are spewing out lots of text and send it somewhere? > > (1) I did a search on CPAN and found there were several matches to Logging. > They all looked very special purpose. Am I mistake or perhaps I need to > search CPAN with a different keyword? > Log::Log4perl is excellent and has an incredible array of functionality. > (2) Regardless of whether CPAN has a module, I'm kinda curious: > (2a) is there a way to serialize a hash table and send it thru a socket? > (and of course, deserialize on the other end)? Sure there are a bunch, not the least of which is Storable. > (2b) What about RPC -- I see from Advanced perl program there is such an > implementation for perl. Would that be an effective logger? I don't think I > want guaranteed delivery, however. I would like the option of not running > the client. Again sounds like overkill to me. Why not just have the app log to a flat file. Then write whatever kinds of mechanisms you want to read, listen, parse that file however is appropriate. 'tail -f' might be all you would need. Start out small, then build on later. Leave the logging as part of the app, but do it simply; it shouldn't form the core of what you are doing. Leave log viewing and handling to a separate suite of apps, scripts, whatever. HTH, http://danconia.org > > Thanks, > Siegfried > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
