sh stdout/stderr redirection problem

[Michael Ross]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:23:53 +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa  
<ulrich at pukruppa.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have got a python3.4 script which I can start from an rc.d script as a
> daemon this way:
> 	
>   daemon -p /var/run/my.pid /path/to/python3.4 /path/to/myscript.py
>
>
> /path/to/python3.4 /path/to/myscript.py produces interesting messages on
> stdout and stderr, so I would like to collect them in /var/log/my.log .
> I have tried all kinds of combinations of >>'s and 2>&1's but either I
> catch daemon's output which is nothing or the script won't start anymore.
>
> Any ideas? - Thanks for your help
>
> Peter

You could do the redirection in your python script:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4675728/redirect-stdout-to-a-file-in-python

Basically,

import sys
f=open('logfile','w')

def redirect(msg):
    f.write(msg)

sys.stdout=redirect
sys.stderr=redirect


Michael


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