Re: Proposal: Logging system rewrite

On 04/01/05 06:29, Wari Wahab wrote:
> On 01-Apr-05, at PM 12:19, Bill Mill wrote:
>>
>> Question: how do you properly handle the event where the user doesn't
>> have a logfile specified in config.py or the specified file doesn't
>> exist/can't be written to? Intuitively, I would say discard all log
>> messages - but how does a user figure out that they have the security
>> wrong on a log file, or that they've misspelled the name? Maybe it
>> just shouldn't initialize with a bad value?
>>
> Log to stderr. The standard nix way of doing things. Bonus prize: 
> things from stderr does end up in the webserver logs.
> 
> 

I think this would be a good fallback solution.

One could also check for the existence of the log_file and log_level
variables in 'test-installation'.


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