ROS logs with robot upstart

Question

I'm using robot_upstart to launch a single launch file when my system boots. I just noticed that when using robot_upstart the normal roslaunch log files do not appear under ~/.ros/log. I then run the kill all command and do roslaunch and the logs show up like normal. Does anyone know how I can enable logging with robot_upstart? Or if tthe logs are being stored elsewhere.

PARTIALLY SOLVED: I was getting an error trying to write the logs. I just never saw the error because, you know... there where no logs. Here is a related question but it has no verified answer at this time.

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Originally posted by shoemakerlevy9 on ROS Answers with karma: 545 on 2016-08-17

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Answer 1

It looks like robot_upstart saves its own log file under /var/log/upstart/[job-name].log. This log file looks like it has all node messages for every run, as opposed to the normal roslaunch logs which create a separate file for each node each time roslaunch is called. I wish there was a better log file to look at but at least its something.

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Originally posted by shoemakerlevy9 with karma: 545 on 2016-08-17

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1