How to get a debugLog?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/18/13 5:31 AM, "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Kay, 

I tend to agree with all you say ...

Although I cannot name this rule put logs into other location to be
"Natural" :)

Yes, we should think future about change location for logs also ..


> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin
> <ruslan_zasukhin at valentina-db.com> wrote:
>> DB folder is not a good choice,
>> Because your app can open 10 dbs from 10 folders.
>> 
>>  APP folder is the only single clear location.
>> 
>> 
>> When VSERVER, Vstudio works they get vlogs in APP folder.
>> Natural ...
> 
> I don't think so. Valentina apps are the only apps that I use that put
> their log files in my Application folder on OS X.
> 
> If I open OS X's Console app up it shows there are three location for log
> files:
> 
> ~/Library/Logs
> /Library/Logs
> /var/Logs
> 
> DriveGenius, Carbon Copy Cloner, Garmin, Onyx, RunRev and a bunch of
> others all have their log files in my ~/Library/Logs.
> 
> postgreSQL, Carbon Copy Cloner and others have log files in my
> /Library/Log folder. Interestingly Carbon Copy Cloner appears to log
> normal events in the ~/Library/Log folder whilst errors and other
> misbehaving end up in the /Library/Log folder. Garmin on the other
> hand has it's own Folder in ~/Library/Logs and inside that are some
> files which report normal operation, and others which report errors.
> 
> Apache and mostly Apple stuff have files in the /var/Log folder.
> 
> In my case I even have a V4REV Installer log file in my ~/Library/Log
> folder, but that would be there because I moved it there because the
> Application Folder is for Applications, not Log files. The nice thing
> about it being there, apart from keeping my Application folder neat
> and tidy, is that the Console app can easily access it a read it. The
> Console app is designed to read Log files, it's the first place I go,
> I don't need to use Spotlight, I don't need to traverse my Folder
> structure, they are all just there - at least the ones that bother to
> put the files in the correct location. Also Console provides a
> convenient way to Trash old log files, although Utilities such as Onyx
> provide an even more convenient way to clean out old log files, but
> again, this only works if they are in the Log Folders.
> 
> I don't know about other OSs, but for OS X it is clearly intended that
> the Log folders are the place to put Log files.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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