Re: [log4perl-devel] set file permissions for Log::Dispatch::FileRotate appender?

2007-11-03 Thread Mike Schilli
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Jeff McCarrell wrote:

> I'm using log4perl in the obvious way.  We have reqs to set the mode
> of the log file to 0666.
> log4perl.appender.PUSHD.filename=/tmp/pushd.log
> log4perl.appender.PUSHD.mode=append
> log4perl.appender.PUSHD.permissions
> = S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH # rotate among 5 log
> files of 10Mbytes each log4perl.appender.PUSHD.size=100kb
> log4perl.appender.PUSHD.max=5
>
> results in 5 files of mode 0; permissions=0666 gets passed as a string
> through the layers, not as an octal number, and results in: --w--wx-wT
> 1 nobody nobody 1063 Nov  2 12:41 pushd.log*

Unless you say explicitly that the right-hand side of a log4perl config
line is Perl code, it's interpreted as a string. So, if you say

   log4perl.appender.PUSHD.permission = sub { use POSIX;
S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH }

instead, it'll work as intended.

-- Mike

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Re: [log4perl-devel] log4perl causing perl process to die (fwd)

2007-11-03 Thread Mike Schilli
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Bob Strahan wrote:

> However, it seems that if certain filesystem operations are
> performed on the logfile it can cause the logger to execute die(),
> causing my service to die, with the following error
>
> Cannot write to 'D:/Program Files (x86)/My App/logs/logfile.txt':
> Permission denied at D:\Program Files (x86)\My
> App\lib\perllibs\lib/Log/Dispatch/File.pm line 86.

Hmm, this is Log::Dispatch::File's _open_file() function complaining
that an open() failed. Does your service open a files after it's been
running for a while? Typically, Log::Dispatch::File(::Locked) opens the
file only once unless 'close_after_write' is given.

Which version of Windows are you running by the way? On regular XP, it
seems to work as expected.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
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> I am using log4perl in a Win32 service that needs to run forever..  However, 
> I have encountered a situation where the logger call is executing a die() and 
> causing my service to die...
>
>
> The service spawns multiple child processes which run concurrently but all 
> log to the same logfile.. We're using File::Locked to avoid contention..  
> Extract from our logger config below..
>
> "log4perl.appender.myapp" => "Log::Dispatch::File::Locked",
> "log4perl.appender.myapp.filename" => "D:/Program Files (x86)/My 
> App/logs/logfile.txt",
> "log4perl.appender.myapp.mode" => "append",
> "log4perl.appender.myapp.close_after_write" => "true",
> "log4perl.appender.myapp.permissions" => "0660",
> Etc..
>
>

> I can reproduce the problem sporadically by simply opening the logfile in 
> Wordpad..
> I can reproduce it reliably by repeatedly copying the logfile using test 
> script below
>
> #!perl -w
> use File::Copy ;
> while (1) {
>copy ("D:/Program Files (x86)/My App/logs/logfile.txt", "D:/Program Files 
> (x86)/My App/logs/logfileCOPY.txt") ;
>print "." ;
> }
>
>
> Any suggestions on how to defend against users copying or opening the 
> logfile?   We should block and retry until open() suceeds, rather than die(), 
> I think.
>
> Please let me know if you can help with a patch, workaround, or suggestion.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Bob Strahan
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[log4perl-devel] appender/dispatcher that writes to per-category files

2007-11-03 Thread Mike Schilli
From: Jonathan Swartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: appender/dispatcher that writes to per-category files
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:00:36 -0700

I'd like to write simultaneously to a central log file, and to a
separate log file for each category. e.g. A log to category Foo.Bar
would go to app.log and Foo.Bar.log. I want to do this automatically
rather than having to configure each category separately.

Before I set out to create this, I was curious if anyone else has
done this and has advice, or if there is an existing appender/
dispatcher that does this (couldn't find anything on cpan).

Seems like one of the potential problems will be reaching a maximum
number of open file handles, given the large number of possible
categories. So I might have to maintain a "cache" of open
filehandles, closing old ones as needed when reaching a limit.

Feedback appreciated.

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Re: [log4perl-devel] appender/dispatcher that writes to per-category files

2007-11-03 Thread Mike Schilli
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Schilli wrote:

> I'd like to write simultaneously to a central log file, and to
> a separate log file for each category. e.g. A log to category Foo.Bar
> would go to app.log and Foo.Bar.log. I want to do this automatically
> rather than having to configure each category separately.

Interesting problem ... do you know ahead of time which categories
you're gonna run into? A script could call all kinds of Log4perl-enabled
modules at runtime, adding new categories on-the-fly.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
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> Before I set out to create this, I was curious if anyone else has done
> this and has advice, or if there is an existing appender/ dispatcher
> that does this (couldn't find anything on cpan).
>
> Seems like one of the potential problems will be reaching a maximum
> number of open file handles, given the large number of possible
> categories. So I might have to maintain a "cache" of open
> filehandles, closing old ones as needed when reaching a limit.
>
> Feedback appreciated.
>
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