From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-09-24T10:21:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating directories

On 9/23/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>
> > There seem to have been a bunch of filesystem-related releases
> > recently.  So I'm not sure if one of them would address my problem
> > better than something that's in the standard library.
> >
> > I'm starting a bunch of applications and need to write their stdout
> > and stderr to logs.  Log files are stored at /<some_base_path>/<user
> > name>/<application name>.log.
> >
> > What's the simplest way of creating all those directories (assuming
> > that none of them exist)?
>
> require 'fileutils'
> FileUtils::mkdir_p 'dir'
>
> you don't need to care if it exsts and all subdirs are created on the fly.


Thanks!

And a related question:  Every time I start an application, I want to
write to a new log file.  But I want to keep the old log files around
(i.e. rotate them).  Can I do that with Logger?  I see options for
rotating when a log file gets to a certain size or on a daily, weekly,
monthly basis, but not when I'm creating a new one.