Re: pglog-rotator

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:10:39PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

Nice little program!  Thank you.


>     ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size, $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) = stat($err_log_file);

FWIW, if you are only going to use the filesize, this can be written as
    $size = (stat($err_log_file))[7];


>         open(LOG, ">>$err_log_file");

And this should probably be
        open(LOG, ">>$err_log_file") or die "$err_log_file: $!";

or some other way of checking that the output file was really opened.


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