This is the Log::Detect Perl Package. 0.1 Copyright ============= This package is Copyright 2001-2005 by Wilson Snyder . This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License or the Perl Artistic License. This code is provided with no warranty of any kind, and is used entirely at your own risk. 0.2 Summary =========== This package provides two modules, Log::Detect and Log::Delayed. Log::Detect allows for GREPing a log file for error messages, and reporting the results in a summary form. Log::Delayed delays error messages until all have been encountered, which is useful for parsers and such that do not want to exit on the first error. 0.3 Log::Detect =============== use Log::Detect; my $d = new Log::Detect (); $d->add_regexp( warning => qr/%W/i, ); $d->read(filename=>"test_dir/test.log"); $d->write_stdout(); $d->write_append(); 0.4 Log::Delayed ================ use Log::Delayed; my $Delayed = new Log::Delayed (filename=>"test_dir/.status"); die_delayed ("First error into .status\n"); if ($Delayed->errors()) { print "We got a error\n"; } $Delayed->errors(0); # Clear errors $Delayed->write_status(); my $current_status = $Delayed->read_status(); $Delayed->exit_if_error(); 0.5 Obtaining Distribution ========================== The latest version is available at `http://www.perl.org/CPAN/', and from `http://www.veripool.com/'. Download the latest package from that site, and decompress. `gunzip Log-Detect_version.tar.gz ; tar xvf Log-Detect_version.tar' 0.6 Supported Systems ===================== This version of Log::Detect has been built and tested on: * i386-linux It should run on any system with Perl5. 0.7 Installation ================ 1. `cd' to the directory containing this README notice. 2. Type `perl Makefile.PL' to configure Log::Detect for your system. (Note this package will probably run slower if you are still using perl 5.005.) 3. Type `make' to compile Log::Detect. Some non-GNU makes may give errors about DIST_DEFAULT, if so you can simply remove that line from Makefile.PL, and repeat the last two steps. 4. Type `make test' to check the compilation. 5. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and documentation.