root / pykota / trunk / pykota / loggers / system.py @ 825

# PyKota
#
# PyKota : Print Quotas for CUPS
#
# (c) 2003 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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# $Id$
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# $Log$
# Revision 1.4  2003/02/27 23:48:41  jalet
# Correctly maps PyKota's log levels to syslog log levels
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# Revision 1.3  2003/02/27 22:55:20  jalet
# WARN log priority doesn't exist.
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# Revision 1.2  2003/02/05 23:47:54  jalet
# Forgotten default argument
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# Revision 1.1  2003/02/05 23:09:20  jalet
# Name conflict
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import sys
import syslog

class Logger :
    """A logger class which logs to syslog."""
    levels = { "error" : "ERR", "warn": "WARNING", "info": "INFO", "debug": "DEBUG" }
    def __init__(self) :
        """Opens the logging subsystem."""
        syslog.openlog("PyKota", 0, syslog.LOG_LPR)
        
    def __del__(self) :    
        """Ensures the logging subsystem is closed."""
        syslog.closelog()
        
    def log_message(self, message, level="info") :
        """Sends the message to syslog."""
        priority = getattr(syslog, "LOG_%s" % self.levels.get(level.lower(), "DEBUG").upper(), syslog.LOG_DEBUG)
        syslog.syslog(priority, message)