Re: Common Logger Help

[Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Greg Melton<gmelton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anyway to configure the common logger to output to a file?

require 'logger'
use Rack::CommonLogger, Logger.new('/some/file/somewhere.log')

Hope that helps, didn't actually check it, but that's the general
direction you should go  :)

> I can see one of the options when calling rackup is a placeholder for an
> access log.
>
> options = {:Port => 9292, :Host => "0.0.0.0", :AccessLog => []}
>
> From what I can tell this isn't used anywhere.
>
> I've tried this and it works up until you run a rackup app daemonized:
>
> rackup config.ru > /full/path/file.log
>
> Once daemonized the following lines are called:
>
>     STDIN.reopen "/dev/null"
>     STDOUT.reopen "/dev/null", "a"
>     STDERR.reopen "/dev/null", "a"
>
> I'm assuming this kills the outputing so it never reaches the log file. I
> know the path is change to root during the daemonization.
>
> I've experimented with commenting out the STDOUT line above and I've had
> mixed results in different environments. I was hoping a solution existed
> without having to touch the rack code base.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg