Can I control the location of log file in batch mode?

[Jimmy Yang]

Let's take my real code into consideration:

[root@www home]#/usr/local/stata14/stata-mp -e do /home/combine1.do "$now" "$now2"

The log file will be located on /home directory and be named /home/combine1.log

[root@www ~]# /usr/local/stata14/stata-mp -e do /home/combine1.do "$now" "$now2"

The log file will be located on /root directory and be named /root/combine1.log

Obviously, it'd better to be independent from where I execute the batch command in order to make the code "portable".

And how do I avoid overriding the log file? (If executing it multiple time)

Another one: since do file invoke ado file, how to record the ado file's log inside do file?

Please give some general guidance on log issue in batch mode.
Thanks a lot!!

[Sergiy Radyakin]

1) Log file is created in the current directory (at least in Windows). If you want it in a specific directory, cd to that directory before running Stata, and provide full file names for both Stata executable and the do file you are running.

See method 2 here: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/windows/batch-mode/

2) From Stata's help:
log allows you to make a full record of your Stata session. A log is a file containing what you type and Stata’s output. You may start multiple log files at the same time, and you may refer to them with a logname. If you do not specify a logname, Stata will use the name <unnamed>.

Best, Sergiy

PS: for a long time I haven't heard of a convincing reason to use batch mode over just running Stata with a do file argument. Check if it is necessary in your case.

[Jimmy Yang]

I use cronjob to execute Stata do file on condition that all the input file/argument of do file have been prepared by other program.