diff --git a/etc/logwatch/scripts/services/cfddns b/etc/logwatch/scripts/services/cfddns
index 41c8099..16e3a6d 100644
--- a/etc/logwatch/scripts/services/cfddns
+++ b/etc/logwatch/scripts/services/cfddns
@@ -1,44 +1,77 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+#############################################################################
+# $Id$
+#############################################################################
+# Log: CloudFlare updater script (cfddns)
+# Revision 1.0  2018/09/26
+# Written by Asif Bacchus
+#############################################################################
 
 
-### Script to parse cfddns.sh log file and display important information
-###
-### Levels:
-### Levels are defined in this script as 0-4, 5 & 5+
-### Levels 0-4 (same): Basic information reporting
-###    Reports only critical information such as errors, update successes and
-###    failures.
-### Level 5: Recommended information reporting level
-###    Adds informational messages such as the hostnames being updated and the
-###    IP address being used for that update.
-### Level 5+ (same): Verbose logging
-###    This will just reprint the entire log.  This should only be used when
-###    checking the actual logfile is not possible or you prefer looking at it
-###    via Logwatch for some reason.  Note: ANSI colouring is removed by this
-###    script to faciliate Logwatch conversion to HTML.  Therefore, viewing
-###    that actual log file is highly recommended instead of via this level of
-###    reporting in Logwatch.
+use strict;
+
+### Get Logwatch detail level
+my $detailLevel = $ENV{'LOGWATCH_DETAIL_LEVEL'} || 0;
 
 
-### Create temporary file for assembling log entries
-cfddnsTmpFile=$(mktemp -p "${LOGWATCH_TEMP_DIR}")
+### Declare variables
+my $summaryErr;
+my $summaryStatusUpToDate;
+my $summaryStatusNeedsUpdating;
+my $summarySuccess;
 
-### Assemble the temp file according to desired Logwatch detail level
-if [ "$LOGWATCH_DETAIL_LEVEL" -lt 5 ]; then
-    # get error, success and status messages
-    { grep '\-- \[ERROR\]' ; grep '\-- \[SUCCESS\]' ; \
-        grep '\-- \[STATUS\]' ; } >> "$cfddnsTmpFile"    
-elif [ "$LOGWATCH_DETAIL_LEVEL" -eq 5 ]; then
-    # get error, success, status and info messages
-    { grep '\-- \[ERROR\]' ; grep '\-- \[SUCCESS\]' ; \
-        grep '\-- \[STATUS\]' ; grep '\-- \[INFO\]' ; } >> "$cfddnsTmpFile"    
-elif [ "$LOGWATCH_DETAIL_LEVEL" -gt 5 ]; then
-    cat
-fi
+my %reportHash = ();
+my $key;
 
-### Strip ANSI escape codes and sort entries according to timestamps
-sed -e 's,\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g' "${cfddnsTmpFile}" | sort -n
 
-### Clean-up and exit
-rm -f "${cfddnsTmpFile}" > /dev/null 2>&1
-exit 0
+### Minimal detail level: provide summary data only
+if ($detailLevel == 0) {
+    ### Process logfile and summarize message types
+    while (defined(my $ThisLine = <STDIN>)) {
+        if ($ThisLine =~ /\-- \[ERROR\] /) {
+            $summaryErr++;
+        }
+        elsif ($ThisLine =~ /up-to-date./) {
+            $summaryStatusUpToDate++;
+        }
+        elsif ($ThisLine =~ /needs updating.../) {
+            $summaryStatusNeedsUpdating++;
+        }
+        elsif ($ThisLine =~ /\-- \[SUCCESS\] /) {
+            $summarySuccess++;
+        }
+    }
+
+    ### Fill hashtable with headings and summary counts
+    if ($summaryStatusNeedsUpdating > 0) {
+        $reportHash{"Entries needing updates"} = $summaryStatusNeedsUpdating;
+    }
+    if ($summarySuccess > 0) {
+        $reportHash{"Entries successfully updated"} = $summarySuccess;
+    }
+    if ($summaryStatusUpToDate > 0) {
+        $reportHash{"Entries already up-to-date"} = $summaryStatusUpToDate;
+    }
+    if ($summaryErr > 0) {
+        $reportHash{"Errors encountered"} = $summaryErr;
+    }
+
+    ### Print hash table
+    foreach $key (sort keys %reportHash) {
+        print "$key: $reportHash{$key}\n";
+    }
+}
+
+
+
+
+### Exit gracefully
+exit (0);
+
+# vi: shiftwidth=3 tabstop=3 et
+# Local Variables:
+# mode: perl
+# perl-indent-level: 3
+# indent-tabs-mode: nil
+# End:
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