Thanks for the suggestions guys.
I was already using soft output ports for writing controlled debugging
information to log files, and it never occurred to me to simply add:
(set-current-error-port <macro-returning-port-to-/usr/bin/logger>)
to the top of my scripts!
Incidentally, I've written a module that wraps /usr/bin/logger and a
couple of macros that make defining any number of log functions a snip.
Example usage:
In cgi/my-script.scm...
(use-modules (sebyte glog))
(load "lib/loggers.scm") ;prepare log functions (names, log
;files, priorities, port tags, padding)
(quick-loggers "my-script.scm") ;define log functions with entry tag
;'my-script.scm'
(info "foo") ;write to log file at priority info
(alert "bar") ;write to log file at priority alert
.
.
.
Later on, in cgi/sub-script.scm...
(quick-loggers "sub-script.scm") ;redefine log functions with entry tag
;'sub-script.scm'
.
.
.
Is this the sort of thing that might go down well on guile.sources?
Seb
