How do I use my error logs to check for errors in my perl scripts, that run on my Fully Managed Linux hosting account?

Complications and malfunctions are common place when installing a new PERL script to a server. The ability to troubleshoot these issues can be a bit tricky at times. Luckily, Linux has a built-in logging feature that will allow errors reported by these scripts, to be written to the server error logs: /www/logs.

1. Login to your server via FTP, and open the script in question, this should be in your cgi-bin.
2. The very top line in your PERL script should look like this#!/usr/bin/perlmodify this line by adding a space and a -w to the end of it, it should look like this.#!/usr/bin/perl -wThis will allow script activities to be logged in the error logs, should there be any
3. Rename your error logs to error_log1, or something similar, and run the script. This will populatea new error log, with only information from this script. Once you have gathered this data, delete thenew log, and rename your file back.