logging infrastructure and notes

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Seth Vidal wrote:

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> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Mike McGrath wrote:
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> > Now that we control reverse lookups this should be easy.
> >
> >> 2. we need to make sure we cleanup old logs from the above, too.
> >>
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> > I asked smooge to look into this this morening :)
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> >> 3. the structure of the log dir doesn't seem to match what we'd normally
> >> see in /var/log on any host. They are being logged as a different dir per
> >> day, which is great, but it'd be good if rsyslog was putting in the same
> >> file structure as a normal set of logs so normal log analysis tools will
> >> work on it
> >>
> >
> > Where would /var/log/messages on bastion from 2009-03-01 exist?
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> Where? On log1? /var/log/hosts/bastion02/2009/03/01/messages
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> what I'm proposing is that in any given day the dir structure look the
> same as what we would normally find in /var/log on any given machine.
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So /var/log/hosts/bastion03/2009/03/01/var/log/messages ?

/me is confused :-/

	-Mike