[Dancer-users] detailed logs, not

[Puneet Kishor]

Maurice Mengel wrote:
> I am new to deployment. Today i did dancer via plack on apache for the
> first time on my server,so I don't really understand this.
>
> With environment, I mean
>    environments/production.yaml
>    environments/development.yaml
>
> I think by default development has log settings.
>

Thanks Maurice. However, I did mention in my first email that I have the 
following in my development.yml

development.yml
---------------------
log         : "debug"
warnings    : 1
show_errors : 1



> Maybe that helps a little.
>
> maurice
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Puneet Kishor<punk.kish at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Maurice Mengel wrote:
>>> two vague ideas
>>>
>>> are you sure you are not overwriting those logging settings in the
>>> environment file?
>>>
>> What is the "environment file"? As far as I know, I don't have any.
>>
>>> And, I just found helpful error messages in error_log created by my
>>> apache. In other words, maybe there is a deployment specific error log
>>> somewhere in your setup (even if you are using a different deployment
>>> method).
>> Well, as I mentioned in my email, there are a few errors that do show up in
>> the app-error_log generated by Apache. However, I can't figure out any
>> pattern to which errors show up there and which don't. I guess it has to do
>> with what traps the error.
>>
>> For example, the last error in my app-error_log is from last night
>>
>>         [Mon Jan 03 22:08:14 2011] [error]...
>>
>> I had made a typo, and it was caught at compile time. I am assuming the run
>> time errors are getting lost in the ether. I have had lots of errors since
>> last night (for example, the aforementioned wrong permission on a directory
>> I was trying to write into). None of those show up anywhere... not in the
>> Apache log, not in occasional errors returned in Firebug, and not in
>> development.log.
>>
>>
>>> best
>>> maurice
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Puneet Kishor<punk.kish at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>> This is befuddling. My config files has the following incantation
>>>>
>>>> config.yml
>>>> ---------------------
>>>> logger      : "file"
>>>>
>>>> development.yml
>>>> ---------------------
>>>> log         : "debug"
>>>> warnings    : 1
>>>> show_errors : 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yet, no detailed warnings or errors are shown anywhere. If I add a
>>>> specific
>>>> debug statement, then that shows up in the "development.log." A few
>>>> warnings
>>>> do show up from time to time in the Apache log. I can't place a pattern
>>>> on
>>>> it -- some kinds of errors show up in the Apache log, some, at times, are
>>>> returned in the http response and are visible in Firebug, and some don't
>>>> show up at all.
>>>>
>>>> For example, I had the following simple
>>>>
>>>>         open my $fh, ">", $file or die "$file: $!\n";
>>>>
>>>> There was a permission problem, and the `open` command was die-ing, but
>>>> the
>>>> error was not visible anywhere. I changed the line to
>>>>
>>>>         open my $fh, ">", $file or debug "$file: $!\n";
>>>>
>>>> and I got the error "permission denied" in my development.log.
>>>>
>>>> The above is a simple instance. I am actually using PDL (Perl Data
>>>> Language)
>>>> for munging through large datasets to display in the web application.
>>>> None
>>>> of my PDL errors are showing up in any log. The only alternative for me
>>>> is
>>>> to very tediously insert the `debug` command in different places until I
>>>> determine what command is breaking.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions on how I could get detailed warnings and errors
>>>> consistently
>>>> in one place?
>>>>
>>
>>




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