Re: debugging messages from a daemon program

I just did some development on a daemon, and I understand your pain.

I had some luck using the ENV hash: ENV['logger'] = Logger.now(...)

2009/7/31 Will Parsons <oudeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I'm developing a daemon written in Ruby and in the course of development I
> like to see various status messages printed at crucial points to aid in
> debugging.  Since this is a daemon, I use syslog and create a global $log
> variable to handle log messages, essentially like the following:
>
> require 'syslog'
> ...
> $log = Syslog.open('progname', Syslog::LOG_PID, log_facility)
> ...
> $log.debug some_message
>
> This has worked well as long as the whole program is contained in a single
> file, but as the program has gradually increased in complexity, I wish to
> remove the definition of some classes to their own files and "require" them
> in the main ruby source file.  This means that whatever is removed to a
> separate file no longer has access to the global variable $log.  Any
> suggestions on how to best handle status/debug messages from these
> subsidiary files?
>
> --
> Will
>
>


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Regards,

Ken

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