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\n");

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

       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);
           }

LICENSE

       Copyright 2002-2013 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.

AUTHOR

       Please contribute patches to the project on Github:

           http://github.com/mschilli/log4perl

       Send bug reports or requests for enhancements to the authors via our

       MAILING LIST (questions, bug reports, suggestions/patches):
       log4perl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

       Authors (please contact them via the list above, not directly): Mike Schilli
       <m@perlmeister.com>, Kevin Goess <cpan@goess.org>

       Contributors (in alphabetical order): Ateeq Altaf, Cory Bennett, Jens Berthold, Jeremy
       Bopp, Hutton Davidson, Chris R. Donnelly, Matisse Enzer, Hugh Esco, Anthony Foiani, James
       FitzGibbon, Carl Franks, Dennis Gregorovic, Andy Grundman, Paul Harrington, Alexander
       Hartmaier  David Hull, Robert Jacobson, Jason Kohles, Jeff Macdonald, Markus Peter, Brett
       Rann, Peter Rabbitson, Erik Selberg, Aaron Straup Cope, Lars Thegler, David Viner, Mac
       Yang.