Appender::Socket(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				       Appender::Socket(3)

NAME

       Log::Log4perl::Appender::Socket - Log to a socket

SYNOPSIS

	   use Log::Log4perl::Appender::Socket;

	   my $appender = Log::Log4perl::Appender::Socket->new(
	     PeerAddr => "server.foo.com",
	     PeerPort => 1234,
	   );

	   $appender->log(message => "Log me
");

DESCRIPTION

       This is a simple appender for writing to a socket. It relies on IO::Socket::INET and offers all parameters this module offers.

       Upon destruction of the object, pending messages will be flushed and the socket will be closed.

       If the appender cannot contact the server during the initialization phase (while running the constructor "new"), it will "die()".

       If the appender fails to log a message because the socket's "send()" method fails (most likely because the server went down), it will try
       to reconnect once. If it succeeds, the message will be sent.  If the reconnect fails, a warning is sent to STDERR and the "log()" method
       returns, discarding the message.

       If the option "silent_recovery" is given to the constructor and set to a true value, the behaviour is different: If the socket connection
       can't be established at initialization time, a single warning is issued.  Every log attempt will then try to establish the connection and
       discard the message silently if it fails.  If you don't even want the warning, set the "no_warning" option to a true value.

       Connecting at initialization time may not be the best option when running under Apache1 Apache2/prefork, because the parent process creates
       the socket and the connections are shared among the forked children--all the children writing to the same socket could intermingle
       messages.  So instead of that, you can use "defer_connection" which will put off making the connection until the first log message is sent.

EXAMPLE

       Write a server quickly using the IO::Socket::INET module:

	   use IO::Socket::INET;

	   my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
	       Listen	 => 5,
	       LocalAddr => 'localhost',
	       LocalPort => 12345,
	       Proto	 => 'tcp');

	   while(my $client = $sock->accept()) {
	       print "Client connected
";
	       while(<$client>) {
		   print "$_
";
	       }
	   }

       Start it and then run the following script as a client:

	   use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy);

	   my $conf = q{
	       log4perl.category		  = WARN, Socket
	       log4perl.appender.Socket 	  = Log::Log4perl::Appender::Socket
	       log4perl.appender.Socket.PeerAddr  = localhost
	       log4perl.appender.Socket.PeerPort  = 12345
	       log4perl.appender.Socket.layout	  = SimpleLayout
	   };

	   Log::Log4perl->init($conf);

	   sleep(2);

	   for(1..10) {
	       ERROR("Quack!");
	       sleep(5);
	   }

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2002-2009 by Mike Schilli <m@perlmeister.com> and Kevin Goess <cpan@goess.org>.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.12.1							    2010-02-07						       Appender::Socket(3)