From 52f198481ba81912e7775c1bde7d1b2f9fffbf08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Baris Soner Usakli <barisusakli@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:19:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] closes #456, if the file path doesnt exists logger was
 crashing

---
 src/logger.js | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/logger.js b/src/logger.js
index ab84f3dad6..eac28782d7 100644
--- a/src/logger.js
+++ b/src/logger.js
@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ var opts = {
 	Logger.open = function(value) {
 		/* Open the streams to log to: either a path or stdout */
 		var stream;
-		if(value)
+		if(value && fs.existsSync(value)) {
 			stream = fs.createWriteStream(value, {flags: 'a'});
+		}
 		else
 			stream = process.stdout;
 		return stream;
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ var opts = {
 			return opts.express.ofn(req,res,next);
 		}
 		else {
-			return next()
+			return next();
 		}
 	}