Please add an option for creating logfiles elsewhere, not in the home directory of the tool.

I have currently, but slowly growing, 49 different scripts, a few run every day, some once a week, some once a month.

To have an (almost) clean homedirectory of my tool, I write all log info to a directory "logs".

With toolforge-jobs I end up with close to 100 additional files. I do not really like that.

Yes, I can add the option --no-filelog which supresses the log. But this prevents me from checking for some problem after that problem occurred, I have no log, nothing.

I tried --command "php ~/spielwiese/tf_test.php >>logs/tf_test.out 2>>logs/tf_test.err" but that did not work.

So after a while, I found this solution:
$ chmod +x nice_file.php
$ cat nice_file.php

#!/usr/bin/bash
exec php -- $@ >>~/logs/nice_file.out 2>>~/logs/nice_file.err <<"EOF"
<?php
print date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time()) . " End nice_file.php\n";
?>
EOF

and can start the job with toolforge-jobs run nicejob --command "~/sandbox/nice_file.php" --image tf-php74 --wait --no-filelog

Live could be much easier with an option for simple redirecting the log files …