Default phing log file location?

Question

I am debugging a phing-based workflow and wish to see errors in detail. (An error is being sent to standard output when I run my phing-based migration script, but it is fairly minimal.)

The main file that seems to be prescribing phing behaviors is called migrate.xml, and I have checked in that file for any mention of the string "log" with no results. So I assume that phing is logging to whatever location it logs to by default. So far, I have looked in /var/log and found no file containing the string "phing."

So my question is this: Is there a default location for phing logs? A quick perusal of Google and the phing documentation has so far found nothing, but I'd be quite happy if it turned out that I missed something, in which case maybe this question helps someone else. A secondary question if we can't answer the main question might be "how might one find the place where phing is sending log output?"

Answer 1

For what it's worth, I found some output related to phing in my default php.log file, living in the /var/log directory.

But this probably isn't everything I was looking for. Phing includes a -logfile option, which leads me to believe it can log more than what goes to the PHP log by default.

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Edit: I did some poking around over the weekend, and it looks like the -logfile argument just causes the output that would normally go to stdout to be instead rerouted to a file. So it appears there's no "default log location" for Phing, beyond what goes to the standard PHP error log.

A slight consolation: I found that in addition to the -verbose command line argument -- which I had known about -- there's also a -debug argument that can give some additional information. So maybe that information helps someone.

Answer 2

Since Phing 2.10.0 you could also use the record task to define your own file based logging workflow.

    <!-- INIT -->
    <record name="verbose.log" loglevel="verbose" append="true" emacsmode="true"/>
    <!-- START -->
    <record name="verbose.log" action="start"/>
    <!-- STOP -->
    <record name="verbose.log" action="stop"/>