Log::Dispatch::FileRotate - Log to files that archive/rotate themselves

SYNOPSIS

  use Log::Dispatch::FileRotate;

  my $file = Log::Dispatch::FileRotate->new( name      => 'file1',
                                       min_level => 'info',
                                       filename  => 'Somefile.log',
                                       mode      => 'append' ,
                                       size      => 10,
                                       max       => 6,
                                      );

  $file->log( level => 'info', message => "your comment\n" );

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a simple object for logging to files under the
Log::Dispatch::* system, and automatically rotating them according to
different constraints. This is basically a Log::Dispatch::File wrapper
with additions. To that end the arguments

	name, min_level, filename and  mode

behave the same as Log::Dispatch::File. So see its man page 
(perldoc Log::Dispatch::File)

The arguments size and max specify the maximum size (in meg) and maximum
number of log files created. The size defaults to 10M and the max number
of files defaults to 1.

Later I'll provide time based constaints as well.

TODO

compression, time based rotates, signal based rotates, proper test suite

AUTHOR

Mark Pfeiffer, <markpf@mlp-consulting.com.au> inspired by
Dave Rolsky's, <autarch@urth.org>, code :-)