Python shell scripting and errors

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Tim Wintle wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:12 -0800, Phillip B Oldham wrote:
>> I've got a python script running as a daemon (using someone else's
>> daemon module). It runs fine for a while, but will occasionally balk
>> and die. Since its running in the background, I'm getting no error
>> from it.
>>
>> What's the best way to capture the output into a file for later  
>> review?
>
> Point standard out to an open file handle?

And stderr.

I don't know how the OP's daemon is being launched, but the crontab  
command below worked for me for redirecting errors to a log file  
without the need to modify the script.

python /usr/local/foo/bar.py >> /var/log/foo/bar.txt 2>&1



HTH
Philip