[Chicago-talk] writing a log with Cron, Daemons, Perl

[Steven Lembark]

--On Thursday, September 11, 2003 21:40:45 -0500 Jay Strauss 
<me at heyjay.com> wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Why do you do the -t test?  And which file is it testing that it's opened
> to a tty?

STDIN, if stdin is not a tty then you are running detached and need a
logfile; else you are ona tty and want to display to the screen.

> Jay
>> unless( -t )
>> {
>>     use Basename;
>>
>>     my $base = (fileparse $0, '\..*')[0];
>>     open STDOUT, '>', "$logdir/$base.out";
>>     open STDERR, '>', "$logdir/$base.err";
>>
>>     select STDERR;
>>     $| = 1;
>>
>>     select STDOUT;
>> }
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steven Lembark                                            2930 W. Palmer
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Steven Lembark                                            2930 W. Palmer
Workhorse Computing                                    Chicago, IL 60647
                                                         +1 888 910 1206