Sending to stderr sounds great then, but how do I find the log after that? And what does "modern system" mean? Can I rely on my Fedora 17 so save the log to a file I can find? On ש', 2013-05-04 at 12:55 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > For debugging sake, log to stderr / stdout. A modern system will > redirect stderr to something like the systemd journal for structured > logging appropriately. > > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM, אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > Thanks for your reply, > > I realized app error logs are needed only for debugging, I > guess that's > why release-build apps in general don't need to log anything. > In debug > mode, I'm taking your advice to write to the standard home > cache dir. > > Anatoly > > On א', 2013-05-05 at 01:16 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:22 PM, אנטולי קרסנר > <tombackton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm writing a desktop application using Gnome > technologies. I added > > > support for some operations which may fail or produce > useful errors, so > > > I decided I want the app to record the warnings and errors > in a log > > > file, allowing me to see the report later, and find bugs. > > > > > > I tried to find any conventions for GNU software logging, > and for Gnome > > > apps, but I found nothing. > > > > > > Is there a convention for that? A standard location for > log files in > > > filesystem/home directory? A common standard for naming > them and filling > > > the contents? > > > > System daemons would generally dump logs somewhere like: > > $(localstatedir)/log/$(daemonname)/$(daemonname).log > > > > Apps don't really log AFAIK, as they don't really have write > permissions > > to /var/log, instead I would think it more appropriate for > the app launcher > > (something integrated in the window manager, like a > springboard) to direct > > logging of an apps' stdout/stderr to some directory *it* > controls (however > > I don't know if WMs or gnome-shell actually do this, just > think it would > > be the 'right way'). > > > > If your app must write somewhere, it would be safe to write > in XDG_CACHE_HOME > > (g_get_user_cache_dir()). > > > > Cheers, > > -Tristan > > > > > > > > And does Gnome have a log viewer app for reading log files > produced by > > > applications? > > > > > > > > > Anatoly > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gtk-list mailing list > > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > > -- > Jasper > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
