logging infrastructure and notes

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 21:29:59 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:29:17PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Mike McGrath wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> Where? On log1? /var/log/hosts/bastion02/2009/03/01/messages
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > So /var/log/hosts/bastion03/2009/03/01/var/log/messages ?
> >
> > /me is confused :-/
> >
> 
> no
> 
> /var/log/hosts/bastion02/2009/03/01/messages
> 
> The idea is that any given day directory has a dir/file structure that 
> matches what an admin expects to see in /var/log on the local machine.
> 
> That also means that tools which expect the structure of /var/log will 
> find the same file structure in any given day dir.

Do give a shout when and if the dir structure changes, esp. if you
think it might affect the stats I pull from the HTTP proxies' logs on
log1.

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