Log to syslog, with optional stderr.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fshare.py b/fshare.py
index ccd3ae6..7ad2f9c 100755
--- a/fshare.py
+++ b/fshare.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import os.path
 from  http import HTTPStatus
 import http.server as hs
 import logging
+import logging.handlers
 import secrets
 import shutil
 import socket
@@ -291,6 +292,7 @@ group.add_argument('-4', '--ipv4',    action = 'store_true')
 group.add_argument('-6', '--ipv6',    action = 'store_true')
 
 parser.add_argument('-l', '--loglevel', default = 'WARNING')
+parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', action = 'store_true', help = 'log to stderr')
 
 parser.add_argument('state_file')
 parser.add_argument('data_dir')
@@ -298,8 +300,21 @@ parser.add_argument('data_dir')
 args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
 
 # configure logging
+progname = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
 logging.basicConfig(stream = sys.stderr, level = args.loglevel)
-logger = logging.getLogger(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))
+logger = logging.getLogger(progname)
+
+formatter = logging.Formatter(fmt = progname + ': %(message)s')
+
+syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler('/dev/log')
+
+handlers = [syslog]
+if args.debug:
+    handlers.append(logging.StreamHandler())
+
+for h in handlers:
+    h.setFormatter(formatter)
+    logger.addHandler(h)
 
 # read the state file
 state = PersistentState(args.state_file)