[Toolserver-l] Phoenix appending stdout to .out file

[Soxred93]

Heh, that's the exact opposite of my situation. :P

My situation is that all my stdout is going to the .out file, and
because of that, it's filling up to several hundred megabytes in a
matter of days.

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 01:12 -0300, Mike.lifeguard wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> I have been using phoenix and cron to keep my IRC bots alive for some
> time, however I never previously needed to see their output.
> 
> The bots are written in python, and use print(), which sends data to
> stdout. When running in terminal or screen for example, this is the
> screen. However, when using phoenix, the claim is that stdout is
> redirected to be appended to a .out file. However, it seems not to
> actually be doing that, and the outfile contains only phoenix's output
> (useless, can we have a --quiet option?), and not the output of the bot
> (useful).
> 
> I've also become a tad confused with the crontab entries. Currently,
> they have >/dev/null so emails aren't sent ten thousand times a day or
> whatever - would this also redirect the output of the actual python script?
> 
> An answer here, or on https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Phoenix would be
> most welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> - -Mike.lifeguard
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