dave selby wrote:
> Im having a bad day. The logging module refused to send anything to
> syslog no matter what I did, so discovering the syslog module &
> thought, for what I need I will write a simple class to do the job.
>
> class kmotion_logger:
>
> def __init__(self, ident, min_priority):
> # min_priority must be one of ...
> # EMERG, ALERT, CRIT, ERR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG
>
> self.case = {'EMERG': syslog.LOG_EMERG,
> 'ALERT': syslog.LOG_ALERT,
> 'CRIT': syslog.LOG_CRIT,
> 'ERR': syslog.LOG_ERR,
> 'WARNING': syslog.LOG_WARNING,
> 'NOTICE': syslog.LOG_NOTICE,
> 'INFO': syslog.LOG_INFO,
> 'DEBUG': syslog.LOG_DEBUG}
>
> self.ident = ident
> print 'log up to & inclusive of ... ', self.case[min_priority]
> syslog.setlogmask(syslog.LOG_UPTO(self.case[min_priority]))
>
> def log(self, msg, priority):
> print 'sending message at level ...', self.case[priority]
> syslog.openlog(self.ident , syslog.LOG_PID,
> (self.case[priority] | syslog.LOG_USER))
| is a bit-wise or, not a logical or.
Logical or is not correct here anyway because self.case[priority] will
raise KeyError for an unknown priority. Try
self.case.get(priority, syslog.LOG_USER)
if you want to provide a default value for unknown keys.
Kent
> syslog.syslog(msg)
> syslog.closelog()
>
> And call it with ...
>
> import kmotion_logger
> # EMERG, ALERT, CRIT, ERR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG
> logger = kmotion_logger.kmotion_logger("kmotion", "DEBUG")
> logger.log("TESTING", "ALERT")
>
> And it worked as I wanted, it logs to syslog (cheers, jumps for joy) :)
>
> Then I noticed several inconsistencys, the following also works AOK ...
>
> import kmotion_logger
> # EMERG, ALERT, CRIT, ERR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG
> logger = kmotion_logger.kmotion_logger("kmotion", "INFO")
> logger.log("TESTING", "ALERT")
>
> But the next one fails to log ...
>
> import kmotion_logger
> # EMERG, ALERT, CRIT, ERR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG
> logger = kmotion_logger.kmotion_logger("kmotion", "NOTICE")
> logger.log("TESTING", "ALERT")
> ALERT is above NOTICE & should log .... I am suspicious of
> '(self.case[priority] | syslog.LOG_USER)' although it looks right and
> have tried LOG_LOCAL6 etc but still no joy
>
> I have even tried explaining it to my cat, no joy
>
> Any ideas anyone ?
>
> Cheers
>
> A very log frustrated programmer
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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