(Illustration by Gaich Muramatsu)
:) Problem is that everything just dumps their output to stdout and stderr which are redirected to the log files. This includes lwp/rpc2 and rvm. well, a program to read stdin and log stuff shouldn't be too hard. And a lot of the logged data is really not that interesting. It probably was useful to some developer(s) while they were working on a problem. Like, why would I care that the 'SmonDaemon timer' just expired. I don't believe many people know what smon (and mond) are, but they used to be part of an extensive profiling system where clients and server dumped trace data into a centralized sql database. I don't think anyone has used that code in the past 4-5 years. Well, that's what log debug is for, or a control mask to not log stuff unless set! But I see the real point, which is that it may be a lot of work to syslogify this. Greg Troxel <gdt_at_ir.bbn.com>Received on 2003-03-06 16:46:44