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Perl in a Nutshell
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Perl in a Nutshell

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
December 1998
Beginner to intermediate
674 pages
40h 41m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Report

Synopsis

$log ->Report(\%eventinfo )

Description

Reports an event to the event log. The information for the event to be recorded is given in a hash, %eventinfo, which should contain values for at least the following keys:

EventType

A string describing the type of event to be reported. The options for EventType are:

EVENTLOG_ERROR_TYPE               Error event               
EVENTLOG_WARNING_TYPE             Warning event             
EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE         Information event         
EVENTLOG_AUDIT_SUCCESS_TYPE       Success Audit event       
EVENTLOG_AUDIT_FAILURE_TYPE       Failure Audit event.

Category

An integer value for the category of the event, defined by the application.

EventID

Source-specific ID for the event.

Data

Raw binary data for the event.

Strings

Any text strings to merge that provide a description of the event.

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