clean up logging about geni-ch

[ahelsing]

Hmm, so i could just set chapi.log_file, but i assume the problem is that AMsoil/src/main.py, which is started as www-data, needs to be able to write the log file. Maybe the installer should create a directory, /var/log/chapi/, which is owned by www-data? Or you can leave it as /tmp/chapi.log in the default config file, and puppet can create that directory and change the setting. I'm fine either way, but i think that (a www-data-owned subdir of /var/log) is the right kind of solution.

Trac comment by chaos on 11-12-2013 at 11:29

[ahelsing]

Oh, actually: you probably want chapi.log and amsoil.log in the same directory, right? So either put those both in some subdirectory of /usr/share/geni-ch (currently the latter is /usr/share/geni-ch/chapi/AMsoil/log/amsoil.log, and install_ch contains a chown so that www-data can write to it), or (better, IMO), put both of them in /var/log/chapi/.

Trac comment by chaos on 11-12-2013 at 12:52

[ahelsing]

At startup, AMsoil still writes to that amsoil.log - changing that will require edits to the amsoil code.

But once CHAPI starts up, logs all go to the same file - /var/log/geni-chapi/chapi.log

Similarly, /var/apache2/error.log gets some log messages, until CHAPI starts up.

CHAPI log file location, format, and log level are all configurable with settings in chapi.ini

By default, we log at INFO.

By default, we log only a summary of each method invocation and result, but if verbose mode is on, we log the entire method call/response.

Trac comment by ahelsing on 11-28-2013 at 06:34