def start_logging()

in Linux_scripts/rhui-check/rhui-check.py [0:0]

• 22 lines of code
• 2 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def start_logging(debug_level = False):
    """This function sets up the logging configuration for the script and writes the log to /var/log/rhuicheck.log"""

    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

    console_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
    color_formatter = CustomFormatter()
    console_handler.setFormatter(color_formatter)    
    logger.addHandler(console_handler)
    console_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)

    if debug_level:
        console_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

    try:
        log_filename = '/var/log/rhuicheck.log'
        file_handler = logging.FileHandler(filename=log_filename)
        plain_formatter = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s")
        file_handler.setFormatter(plain_formatter)    
    except:
        logger.critical("Unable to create log file in /var/log/rhuicheck.log, make sure the script is running with root privileges, the filesystem has enough space and it's not in Read-Only mode")
        exit(1)
    else:
        file_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
        logger.addHandler(file_handler)

    logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    return logger