Maybe this was just added for our own debugging purposes. It is important to have logging, but this requires that the log file be writeable by the user invoking shoal client. Since any user on the system should be able to use the client, this would require 0777 permission which is bad practice.
Best solution would be to use a python interface to syslog , then we don't need to worry about the log files or their permissions. This should be relatively straightforward?
https://docs.python.org/2/library/syslog.html
The current version of shoal client does not work out of the box so this is a significant blocker.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/shoal-client", line 30, in <module>
logging.basicConfig(filename="/var/log/shoal_client.log", format='%(asctime)s %(message)s', level=logging.INFO)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1529, in basicConfig
hdlr = FileHandler(filename, mode)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 902, in __init__
StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 925, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/shoal_client.log'
Shoal client has:
logging.basicConfig(filename="/tmp/shoal_client.log", format='%(asctime)s %(message)s', level=logging.INFO)Maybe this was just added for our own debugging purposes. It is important to have logging, but this requires that the log file be writeable by the user invoking shoal client. Since any user on the system should be able to use the client, this would require 0777 permission which is bad practice.
Best solution would be to use a python interface to syslog , then we don't need to worry about the log files or their permissions. This should be relatively straightforward? https://docs.python.org/2/library/syslog.html
The current version of shoal client does not work out of the box so this is a significant blocker.