On Fri February 3 2006 12:49, Matt Nuzum wrote:
> On 2/3/06, Charles Baker <charles.baker@datastream.net> wrote:
> > I'm setting up a host server and several vservers that developers in my
> > organization will use to test bug fixes of our software. They will
> > occasionally need access to certain directories on the vservers to check
> > logs, etc.
> >
> > For convenience sake samba shares to the needed directories would be the
> > thing to have. Is the best practice to set up samba on the host server
> > and share directories within the /vservers/$SERVERNAME/path/to/log/dir
> > or set up samba w/in the vserver itself and share it that way?
>
> I've pondered this question myself and haven't come to a definite
> conclusion. I've had some problems with locking, although that was an
> older version of Samba and I here the problem I had has been resolved.
>
> No matter what I try, I keep coming back to SSH and tail -f and some
> other custom tools I've written.
>
> I've thought about using named pipes that will automatically spit out
> log files into multiple places, but I haven't taken the time yet to
> persue this.
>
You mean like: /dev/log (syslog socket)?
>
> I envision a daemon process that watches the named pipe and (in my
> case) spit out a full log file, like normal, then grab "interesting"
> log entries and spit them out as separate files into a share that can
> be accessed elsewhere.
>
Perhaps name the daemon syslogd?
Try: man syslogd
You can specify selected information to be remotely logged.
That is the 'common' syslogd on Linux systems, if using one of the
alternatives, remote logging might not be supported.
Mike
> For me, debugging log files containe snippets
> of XML and SQL and it would be nice if those XML snippets are saved
> out as *.xml files so that they open in XML spy with just a double
> click and the sql is saved as *.sql files.
>
> The only doubt I have about this working is the challenge of keeping
> the daemon running. I realize this problem has probably been solved,
> but I still wonder how it will work in a named pipe scenario.
>
> Just food for thought and mindless rambling...
>
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