On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:50:15AM, Henrik Storner wrote:
Hi Rolf,
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:30:11AM +0100, Rolf Schrittenlocher wrote:
Hi Henrik,
that sounds wonderful, your ideas are pretty good.
Thanks.
I have one suggestion and one point to think about.
For monitoring application-logs the config file soon would become very > complex and likely unreadable. There it would be nice if there is a > possibilty for include-files. So general definitions -e.g. for > OS-related logs - would be made in the general config file, all the > individual stuff in <host>.config files.
That would make sense, I agree.
Second, there are logs which change their names once the server or the > application stops. So a "message.log" might become "message<date>.log" > while there is a new message.log now. Still the last informations in > "message<date>.log" are relevant, especially if the reason for the new > log was a crash of the application. I don't know how to deal with this > situation as there are multiple ways how logs might change their names > but perhaps others have an idea of how to do that.
It's something I thought about too, although my concerns were with logfiles that get rotated at a specific time of day, not those that change when an application restarts. But like yourself I couldn't find a really good solution.
We have similar problem where we actually need to monitor
messsges.`date` file. With bb-msgtab you cannot do that. I wonder if
hobbit could be able monitor a file with dynamic extension like that.
The file being renamed is not the only problem - it may get compressed,
moved to a different directory, ... lots of ways for it to get lost.
So - if anyone has a bright idea, do speak up.
Currently we have created symbolic files like these
messages.020106 --> messages
messages.020206 --> messages
messages.022806 --> messages
So when the application tries to put files on the specific date file it
does not matter since bb-msgtab always reading the `messages' file which
never changed.
Thanks
Regards,
Henrik
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