How to understand this perl script

[Allanm]

Please suggest on how to understand this Big Perl script. I am not very comfortable working in Perl and need a sh -x like output while executing this script and understand what the script is doing, also this script is referring to few of the config files while it is executing and need to find which are those and how are they being utilized.

Please explain in a layman-like manner.

On an another note - I would like to execute this script through a browser and find out which parts of the application are up or down.Green color for up and red for down.

Thanks to all the nice Samaritans.

[Allanm]

Please help !

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

There isn't a good (easy) complement to the shell's '-x' trace in Perl short of the Perl debugger which isn't what you want. The script, has, however a debug option in the form of '-d' builtin. I suggest that you run the script using that.

Regards!

...JRF...