logging infrastructure and notes

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> 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.

This has nothing to do with http logs

-sv