6.2. logging.nml

This file provides control over the log output from JULES. It contains a single namelist called LOGGING.

6.2.1. LOGGING namelist members

LOGGING::log_dir

Type:character Default:“”

The directory that log files will be created in.

If no log directory is given (i.e. the empty string "" is given as log_dir), then log output will be written to stdout. If the user is running multiple tasks using MPI (see Building and running JULES in parallel mode), lines written to stdout will be prefixed with the MPI task number, e.g.:

{MPI Task 4} [INFO] jules: Run completed successfully

If a log directory is given and JULES is running in serial mode, a single log file called task0.stdout will be created. If JULES is running in parallel using MPI, a log file will be created for each MPI task. The log files will have names like task<n>.stdout where <n> is the MPI task number.

LOGGING::log_print_level

Type:integer Permitted:0-31 Default:31

Determines which levels of log messages are written to the log files (or stdout).

The default is to write all levels of log messages.

log_print_level is a bitwise combination of the following:

Level	Value	Meaning
INFO	1	Informational messages.
DEBUG	2	Debugging messages.
WARN	4	Warning messages indicating that something may be wrong.
ERROR	8	Error messages indicating that something is wrong but program execution can continue.
FATAL	16	Error messages indicating that program execution must be halted.

For example, to print all log levels (the default), 31 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 is used. To print only debug messages and fatal errors, 18 = 2 + 16 would be used.

LOGGING::log_stop_level

Type:integer Permitted:0-15 Default:0

Determines which levels of log messages cause the program to terminate.

Note

Fatal errors will always cause the program to terminate, regardless of this setting.

The default is to only terminate the program if a fatal error is encountered.

log_stop_level is a bitwise combination of the following:

Level	Value	Meaning
INFO	1	Informational messages.
DEBUG	2	Debugging messages.
WARN	4	Warning messages indicating that something may be wrong.
ERROR	8	Error messages indicating that something is wrong but program execution can continue.

For example, to stop execution at warning and error messages as well as fatal errors, 12 = 4 + 8 would be used.