Re: Following log directories

From: Guillermo <gdiazhartusch_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:52:40 -0300

El jue., 25 jun. 2020 a las 10:20, Guillermo escribió:
>
> El jue., 25 jun. 2020 a las 6:27, Carl Winbäck escribió:
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> > Does anyone know if the follow-log-directories tool[1] from the nosh
> > suite is compatible with logs produced by s6-log?
>
> Let's find out. I'll test that.

And it appears to be compatible, indeed, as long as s6-log is invoked
with the 't' directive (prepend timestamp in TAI64N format), to match
the logging file format expected by follow-log-directories, as stated
in its documentation.

Also, note that follow-log-directories is a daemon, so it will keep
running and outputting log lines until killed, once it catches up with
the logging directory. TAI64N timestamps are not decoded, so if you
want them in human-readable format, pipe its standard output to
s6-tai64nlocal.

You might also want to separate follow-log-directories's standard
output stream from its standard error stream, since the program is
somewhat chatty during catch-ups and during logdir rotations.

G.
Received on Thu Jun 25 2020 - 14:52:40 UTC