Re: Debug mode

[John Poltorak <jp @ eyup . org>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:51:21PM -0500, Dan Liston wrote:
> If you uncomment that line in majordomo.pl, you enable DEBUG, which in turn
> disables your majordomo because messages are no longer processed, just 
> logged as what would happen if the message were really sent.

That isn't correct at all. This particular line has been uncommented for 
around a year, but all my lists have been working fine. 

 
> Dan Liston
> 
> John Poltorak wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:35:01PM -0500, Daniel Liston wrote:
> > > I saw this message asked before (probably you), but did not know the
> > > answer.  I will take a stab at this since nobody else has spoken up,
> > > and say "no".  Of course, you could dig into the majordomo.pl or even
> > > the resend script to find out for sure.
> > 
> > I could look at majordomo.pl for several years, and I still wouldn't know.
> > PERL is still on one of my many 'to learn' lists...
> > 
> > However looking at it, I see the line:-
> > 
> > $DEBUG = $main'DEBUG;
> > 
> > ... quite near the start.
> > 
> > Any idea what this is for or how it works?
> > 
> > 
> > > Dan Liston
> > >
> > > John Poltorak wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to switch on debug mode via a cmd line parameter or
> > > > environment variable?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > John
> > >
> > 
> > --
> > John


-- 
John