When I was running MX 6 and 7.0 on my OS X box, I would usually launch CF in a terminal window and leave that window open so I could see the various status messages, flash gateway notices and trace outputs in realtime. This saved me the effort of combing through a 5,000+ line error log and was in fact the only way to see trace messages (that I knew of) if interfacing with Flash. Now, in 7.0.1, launching CF either though the ColdFusionLauncher.appor the /bin/coldfusion shell script will by default direct all those message to cfserver.log. That's all well and good, but debugging a Flash Remoting gateway by watching your traces as they occur is pretty handy, so I set out today to figure out how to get CF to send its output to console. Turns out it's quite easy.
If you are doing development on your machine, and don't care about having a hard copy of your server startup and shutdown messages then edit a copy of /Applications/ColdFusionMX7/bin/coldfusion and change line 68 from this: eval $CFSTART >> $CF_DIR/logs/cfserver.log 2>&1 To this: eval $CFSTART 2>>$CF_DIR/logs/cfserver.log This will allow the server's output to go to your screen, and send server error messages to cfserver.log. All other messages (trace, flash, application etc.) still go to their respective log files. And since the CFSTART variable already sets CF to run as a background process, you'll be handed back control in the Terminal window, so you can continue to do other things (as long as you don't mind CF popping up the occasional message.) This does technically work for the launcher app, although it confuses it somewhat, since it's expecting a proper exit. You won't be able to click on the buttons, so I wouldn't really recommend using it. I'd love to see the ability to use ColdFusionLauncher.app as a console monitor in the future, though! Also keep in mind that if you close the Terminal window, you won't see the messages anymore. Obviously, this is meant for development servers. :) Hope someone else finds this useful! - Ken -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. - Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230449 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
