From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/528 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Stokes-Rees Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: svlogd -tt Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:30:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4100E8C7.2060102@physics.ox.ac.uk> References: <40FD6BB6.5000902@zweipol.net> <20040723102024.28233.qmail@67ec0c2e018e31.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090578647 20016 80.91.224.253 (23 Jul 2004 10:30:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-766-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Fri Jul 23 12:30:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by deer.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BnxK0-0003xV-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:30:36 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 20851 invoked by uid 76); 23 Jul 2004 10:30:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 20845 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 10:30:58 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, en-gb Original-To: Gerrit Pape In-Reply-To: <20040723102024.28233.qmail@67ec0c2e018e31.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:528 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:528 Ian. It is a bit hard to see at a glance what the file names mean for log files. Maybe a sym link to the existing files with the sym link having a more descriptive name? Ian Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:00:06PM +0200, Henrik Heil wrote: > >>i read the thread about the svlogd -t switches some weeks ago and though >> i am using -tt (UTC) happily i am missing the feature to have the >>rotated logfiles with UTC-names instead of @TAI-names. >> >>Is there a drawback to make this an option? >>The order of the logfiles would be preserved, selecting logfiles with >>wildcards would be easy. >> >>I cannot comment on pro/contra TAI itsself but i think one who decides >>not to have TAI-timestamps in the logfiles would prefer UTC-filenames >>for the rotated files too. >> >>What do you think? > > > When making it a runtime option, there must be a decision whether svlogd > shall maintain two different sets of files in the log directory, or > filename conversion should be done. > > I'm not eager to add this option to svlogd, but would be interested in > the opinion of other people, and maybe a patch, though. > > Regards, Gerrit. -- Ian Stokes-Rees i.stokes-rees1@physics.ox.ac.uk Particle Physics, Oxford http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~stokes