Re: logging at startup

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Perrin Harkins wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:11, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
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>>The problem is that when the module is loaded there is no request object 
>>and I am not sure how I can use log_error without it.
>>    
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>Are you in a request at the time when the error happens?  If so, you can
>get a request object by calling Apache->request().  If not, you won't be
>able to send any HTML anyway, so just print a message to STDERR.
>
>- Perrin
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Thanks. No I am not in a request because this is happening as the server 
is starting up and the module is being loaded (startup.pl).
How can I write my code to know whether it is in a request and only if 
so, output the standard error page. Calling Apache->request() when there 
is no request gives an error (Can't locate object method "request" via 
package "Apache"). Should I do something like:

eval {
    $r = Apache->request();
}

if (! $@) {
      # we have a request, dump the error page
}

On a separate note, why would one even bother with 
Apache::Log->log_error? instead of just using CGI::Carp (for 
simple/basic error loggin that is

I am just trying to wrap my head around the many ways of doing the same 
thing, so any comments you might have would be very much appreciated.


Arshavir

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