Option to create directory of specified log files

[felipemachado-sambatech]

I tried to set the logfile to a file in a directory that doesn't exist. Shouldn't there be an option to automatically create these directories?

[mnaberez]

I'd rather not add this option, sorry. The config file is already quite verbose and this option may not provide much benefit over mkdir. It would probably be less effort to just run mkdirthan to shut down supervisord, edit the configuration file to enable the automagic directory option, and start supervisord again.

[sherbert]

For the record, we would also appreciate this feature. We keep our log files in a path that is periodically purged of files and directories that haven't been touched in some amount of time (and there's nothing I can do about this). This means that if we shut down a process for a month, its log directory will be gone when we try to restart it, and so it would be nice for that directory to be automatically recreated.

[RobWin]

+1 for this option

[jaanauati]

+1

[felipou]

As a related note, this diminishes the reliability of supervisor. I don't know if that's been solved somehow in the master branch, but in version 3.1.1, someone accidentally removed a log directory in our server, and supervisor simply stopped working, taking all other programs with it, not just the one with the log directory missing.

I think the scalability of supervisor is also compromised because of this, since one problem in one of the programs can end up taking all others down.

I'd be happy to contribute with a pull request, I just need some pointers as to where I should start in the code.

Also, I don't know if I should create another issue for this...

[coderlol]

+1...very reasonable request, why not honoring it?

[rb2nem]

Missing this too....

[paambaati]

Is there a workaround that will at least let us create the directory from within the config file? Maybe run mkdir inside?

[kujiy]

+1

We docker users should do this

1. ENTRYPOINT["sh", "/entrypoint.sh"] in Dockerfile
2. In /entrypoint.sh, create a log directory and log files before calling supervisord

This is a shell script for /entrypoint.sh to create them from supervisord.conf automatically.

# Create log dirs and files
mkdir -p $( dirname $(cat /etc/supervisord.conf  | grep logfile= | grep "\.log" | sed s/.*logfile=// ) )
touch $( cat /etc/supervisord.conf  | grep logfile= | grep "\.log" | sed s/.*logfile=// )

# Then run supervisord
/usr/bin/supervisord

Is there any good idea?