On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 12:51, Syed Qutubuddin Ahmad wrote:
[snip ]
> thanks for help. the commands you suggested will be great for me. But i
> move logfiles periodically at another machine which may not be necessarily
> a linux machine(can be windows :( ), plus daemontools might not be
> installed on it. Also my supervisor needs to view logfiles himself
> sometimes, and he wants human readable time stamps.:(:(.
> Thats why i still need some method to write human readable timestamps in
> logfiles directly..
[snip]
How about a scriptlet like
<collect logs>
# expand service log files
LOG=/var/log/daemontools
# log file for unattended operations
exec >>/var/log/cron-daily.log 2>&1
mkdir -p $LOG
for svcdir in /service/*
do
svc=`basename $svcdir`
log=$LOG/$svc.log
savelog -t $log
for logfile in $svcdir/log/main/@* /var/log/svscan/@*
do
[ -f $logfile ] || continue
# insert service-tag and expand time stamp
sed 's? ?'" $svc: "'?' $logfile | tai64nlocal >>$log
rm -f $logfile
done
done
</collect logs>
I use it once a day, have my logfile parser will analyze the
expanded results. A similar appoach would do with a remote machine.
So the size of the log files are still under control of "multilog"
while the human readable form appears as bulk data in the directory
/var/log/daemontools ready for further processing.
As I am lazy, I use "savelog" to control the amount of data in the
bulk directory. This restricts the number of files (and compresses
the older ones) in the backlog.
jordan
