Redirecting sugarcrm.log to stdout = black hole

Question

We're running sugarcrm 8.0.6 ENT inside of a Docker container, and I'm trying to redirect the application logs to stdout/stderr so we can consume them with CloudWatch.

I have the following setup in our Dockerfile:

RUN set -ex \
    && . "/etc/apache2/envvars" \
    && ln -sf /dev/stdout "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/access.log" \
    && ln -sf /dev/stdout "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/other_vhosts_access.log" \
    && ln -sf /dev/stderr "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/error.log" \
    && ln -sf /dev/stdout "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/sugarcrm.log" \
    && ln -sf /dev/stderr "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/php_error.log"

And it's working fine for the Apache access/error and PHP logs, however Sugar refuses to write to /dev/stdout and I'm wondering if it's something to do with the way the Logger class is trying to write to the file?

Does anyone have experience with this?

John Hoffmann · Accepted Answer

I worked it out. I created a new custom SugarLogger class in which the log() method writes to syslog(), set sugar_config['logger']['default'] = 'CustomClass', and installed rsyslogd, having it pipe the output to stderr.