Re: Logfile Suggestions

Forgive me for the funked up mail that I sent yesterday. Something went 
kablooey with my mailer. What I meant to say was:

I wonder if Doug's problem is related to my complaint about the apparent
non-flushing of logfile buffers. 

-Mark

Anselm Baird-Smith wrote:
> 
> Doug Marker writes:
>  > One suggestion we want to offer is that the log file not be locked to
>  > prevent other tasks or processes reading it.
>  >
>  > In our other servers we were able to write simple & quick scripts that
>  > would allow us to glance through the log each to to check activity. With
>  > Jigsaw we can't get at the log unless we shutdown Jigsaw then we can
>  > view the file.
> 
> I am not sure what you mean by locking (?) If you take a look at the
> w3c.jigsaw.http.CommonLogger, you will see that it just uses a
> RandomAccessFile to output the log (arent' you hitting an OS/2
> specificity ?)
> 
>  > In time we could write a resource to display it on-line (is there one ?)
> 
> This ought to be part of the "monitoring" part of what should be a
> jigadm application, probably based on applets.
> 
> Anselm.

Received on Thursday, 27 June 1996 12:09:26 UTC