On 7/20/07, Gregory Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
I have a script that i'm working on, I want it to write info to a log
file, but I can't get it to write to  the file.. I run the script as
root, and I also chmod 0777 the file but still no out put ...
what have it missed ..
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Simplify, simplify, simplify.


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::File;

my $wait     = 10;
my $logfile  = "/var/log/ifwatch";
my $continue = 1;

open my $log, ">>", $logfile
       or die "could not open $logfile:$!";

$log->autoflush(1);

#### process handeling kill and restart call
$SIG{INT} = $SIG{TERM} = sub {
 print $log localtime() . " Exiting...\n";
 $continue = 0;
};

$SIG{HUP} = sub {
 print $log localtime() . " Restarting...\n";
 exec ($0, @ARGV) or die "Could not restart: $!\n";
};

open STDIN, "<", "/dev/null"
       or die  "could not redirect stdin: $!";

print $log localtime() . " ifwatch starting\n";
while ($continue) {
       #do stuff
       print $log localtime() . " sleeping\n";
       sleep $wait;
}
print $log localtime() . " ifwatch exiting\n";

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