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[jarednichols]

Hi-

Need a quick hand… I'd like to re-direct all my output from a script to a log file. Easy enough with an "exec &> <filename>" at the top of my script. However, I get no date/timestamp when I do this in the log file. I'd like it to look all purdy like system.log or jamf.log does, but don't know how to accomplish that.

Anyone?

Thanks!
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[tlarkin]

You could write a small function that goes through output settings
along with a date stamp and then use it at the top of your script.

[jarednichols]

I think I've kinda figured it out, but am hammering through it… Deals with modifying /etc/syslog.conf to catch messages generated by my launchd controlled script. I'll let y'all know if I get it sorted.

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[#4]

you can do something like this at the beginning of each script or action:

echo "[$(date '+%Y%m%d.%H%M')]" >> /path/to/log

jorge a. najera-ordonez

[jarednichols]

Yeah I've got that already… It works but… Meh. I'd like to use the built-in logging functionality of the OS so that I get nice pretty log files with timestamps and if they get big enough, rolled up and cycled down.

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436