Add ability to log directly to a file

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Christian Rocha
2020-05-21 16:56:47 -04:00
parent 6ceafa032c
commit 9d175b5ed7

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@@ -5,13 +5,35 @@ package boba
import (
"log"
"log/syslog"
"os"
)
// LogToFile sets up default logging to log to a file This is helpful as we
// can't print to the terminal since our TUI is occupying it. If the file
// doesn't exist it will be created.
//
// Don't forget to close the file when you're done with it.
//
// f, err := LogToFile("debug.log", "debug")
// if err != nil {
// fmt.Println("fatal:", err)
// os.Exit(1)
// }
// defer f.Close()
func LogToFile(path string, prefix string) (*os.File, error) {
f, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND, 0644)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
log.SetOutput(f)
return f, nil
}
// UseSysLog sets up logging to log the system log. This becomes helpful when
// debugging since we can't easily print to the terminal since our TUI is
// occupying it!
// debugging since we can't print to the terminal since our TUI is occupying it.
//
// On macOS this is a just a matter of: tail -f /var/log/system.log
// On Linux this varies depending on distribution.
func UseSysLog(programName string) error {
l, err := syslog.New(syslog.LOG_NOTICE, programName)
if err != nil {