On Oct 27, 6:09 am, Gelonida N <gelon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a rather 'simple' problem. > Logging from multiple processes to the same file AND be sure, that no > log message is lost, > > 1.) Log multiple processes to one file: > ------------------------------------------ > > I have a python program, which I want to log, but which forks several times. > > Due to the forking logging to files with the default logging.FileHandler > seems out of question. > > It seems, that I could use a SocketHandler, which collects data from all > different processes and logs then to one file. > > Does anybody have a working example. > > 2.) Ensure, that no log message is lost. > ------------------------------------------ > If I understood the doc of the SocketHandler, then > it will drop messages if the socket handler is not available. > > However for my current activity I would prefer, that it aborts if it > cannot connect to the socket and that it blocks if the log server > doesn't handle the sent data fast enough. > > Is this possible. > > Thanlks a lot in advance. > > What I found so > far:http://docs.python.org/howto/logging-cookbook.html#logging-to-a-singl... > > It states: > "The following section documents this approach in more detail and > includes a working socket receiver which can be used as a starting point > for you to adapt in your own applications." > > Somehow I have a mental block though and fail to see the 'following > section'. > > I also foundhttp://code.google.com/p/python-loggingserver/and ran > first tests. > > However it seems, that this server stops logging my application after > about 128 log entries. (the number varies and is not necessarily exactly > 128), whereas the console loggier continues logging. > > I'm not really show why and would prefer a simpler example first. > > Thanks in advance for any code example, idea, link, comment.
You might want to check out the SIMPL toolkit (http:// www.icanprogram.com/06py/main.html). A SIMPL receiver will "naturally" queue and serialize messages from multiple senders. bob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
