gnu@perl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I am part way through design of a logging utility to take the place of logrotate. What this does is read from STDIN and write to a designated log file. Upon startup it gets the size of the log file and tracks writes to that file, once the destination file reaches a certain size it rotates out the file. The benefit of this over logrotate is the file is closed and rotated without without the need to HUP or restart the log generating application.
This utility also has the ability to perform pattern matching using compiled reg-exes to log only certain data or to exclude certain data from the log file. It is configurable via command line or cfg file. Does anyone know of an application which performs these tasks already (I have not found one) or should I continue on with my design?
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Re: Write logging utility, or does one exist
by naChoZ (Curate) on May 04, 2005 at 16:47 UTC | |
Re: Write logging utility, or does one exist
by davidrw (Prior) on May 04, 2005 at 16:30 UTC | |
by gnu@perl (Pilgrim) on May 04, 2005 at 16:47 UTC | |
Re: Write logging utility, or does one exist
by magog (Beadle) on May 04, 2005 at 22:01 UTC | |
by afresh1 (Hermit) on May 05, 2005 at 00:55 UTC | |
Re: Write logging utility, or does one exist
by mda2 (Hermit) on May 05, 2005 at 01:03 UTC | |
Re: Write logging utility, or does one exist
by edoc (Chaplain) on May 05, 2005 at 02:44 UTC | |
Re: Write logging utility, or does one exist
by displeaser (Hermit) on May 05, 2005 at 12:52 UTC |
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