Perl-friendly message queue-like system

[Elizabeth Mattijsen]

On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Mongers of Perl,
> 
> I have a bunch of servers doing mail ilftering.  I would like them to send tiny messages about the results of said filtering to a central point.  I would then like something at the central point to pop messages off the queue and update a database.  Think of it as sort of a centralised collection point for statistical data.  If the odd message gets eaten, it really doesn't matter.
> 
> I understand something like RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ might do what I want, however the former's website doesn't mention Perl and the latter I am terrified of, having used it.
> 
> My Google-fu is failing me, what Perl-friendly system might I use for such a thing?

Maybe syslogging to a central host is what you really need?  And then process the syslog logs ?



Liz