[erlang-questions] SASL

[Robert Raschke]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, emeka okafor <emeka_1978@REDACTED> wrote:

> hi everybody,
> erlang newbie here. I am having a hard time telling my erlang application
> to pick up the sasl configuration that i pass through command line
> arguments.
> I created a release and am able to start the application with "*bin/werl
>  -AppName -config sasl.config*. The config i am using is from joe's book
> "programming erlang":
>
> *%% rotating log and minimal tty*
> *[{sasl, [*
> *{sasl_error_logger, false},*
> *%% define the parameters of the rotating log*
> *%% the log file directory*
> *{error_logger_mf_dir,"/home/joe/error_logs" },*
> *%% # bytes per logfile*
> *{error_logger_mf_maxbytes,10485760}, % 10 MB*
> *%% maximum number of logfiles*
> *{error_logger_mf_maxfiles, 10}*
> *]}].  *
> *
> *
> No directory is created and if i create one then no logs are written in
> it; when i excute sys:get_status(error_logger), i can see that
> "error_logger_mf_dir" is not listed.
> What am i doing wrong?
>
>
The -config option expects a name without the .config extension, as that
gets added by the system. So, try simply -config sasl . And yes, the
directory for the log must pre-exist.

Robby
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