From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-09-24T13:31:08+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:
>
> > 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.
>
>    require 'logger'
>
>    logger = Logger:new 'log', log_age
>
>    # or
>
>    logger = Logger:new 'log', log_age, log_size
>
>
>    # log_age can be daily|weekly|monthly|number_of_days
>
> whammo.  log rolling.

:-)  You might want to re-read my question.

Every time I start the application, I want to create a new log file
and rotate the old ones (say, keep the last 10).  I did see the
options for rotating on size and by date.  But I didn't see an option
for rolling the log for every new application launch.

So, if I start the application 5 times, there should be five log files.