Export to upstart and logging

[Mjumbe Poe]

I'm interested in using the built-in log capturing and rotation in upstart with a honcho exported job. I like that you can, if you so desire, specify the folder to which to write logs, but upstart will do it better.

I'm considering a few different ways to do this and wanted to get opinions:

• using tee to write to both stdout/stderr and the custom log file; this will have the unfortunate side-effect that you will have the same logs in two places, wasting disk space
• accepting a special value for --log to indicate that you want to bypass file logging (maybe --log -)
• ignoring the --log value in the template; then the script would just write to stdout/stderr and use the default upstart logging

I'm leaning toward the last option, even though it disregards the --log option and may break existing configurations that depend on the logs being written to a custom folder. I think there's more value in getting access to upstart's log compression and rotating.

[Mjumbe Poe]

Submitted pull requests for the first and last potential solution above. Of course, at least one should be rejected.

[Nick Stenning]

Thanks for this! I'll have a look at the two PRs in a couple of days when I have a free moment.

I agree that using Upstart's native logging is probably a better approach overall. We originally provided our own logging approach because Upstart on Ubuntu 10.04 didn't manage logs. Lucid is well out of support now so I think we can just go with #181 and a note that the change will be backwards-incompatible.

[Nick Stenning]

All done here, I think. Thanks again!