Question

I have a Django 1.3 application. I have several management commands. I want each command to write, to a different logfile, instead of default filename defined in settings.py. I run these commands as part of cron everyday. Our current logfile looks like the example given here https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging/. And, we use

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

Thanks

Answer 1

You’ll need to do this by adding a logger and a handler for each package:

'handlers': {
    'my_command_handler': {
        'level': 'DEBUG',
        'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
        'filename': '/path/to/my_command_log',
     },
     ...
},
'loggers': {
     'my_pkg.management.commands.my_command': {
         'level': 'DEBUG',
         'handlers': ['my_command_handler'],
     },
     ...
 }

You may also want to consider adding 'propagate': False to the command loggers, if you don’t want the messages to get to other loggers.