Subject: Log files

From: A VAX's nightmare <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 17:37:12 -0700

I was wandering around the other night with nothing much to do when I got
to thinking (don't ask me why) about the moo log files. It occured to me
that with all the traffic large MOOs get, that to find something in the log
file must be next to impossible. So what I thought was this: Why not
seperate it into two files? I mean, one would be dedicated to connections
and perhaps the outbound connections, and the other would be dedicated
to system moo 'system' entries such as checkpointing and security messages.
This would make the first file, say foo.connections.log, the busiest and
leave the other, say foo.system.log, growing at a much slower rate, making
it easier to find whatever it is that you're looking for.

Any oppinions?

-Wayne/Sadric@lambdaMOO

---

From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 12:46:38 -0700

> Date:	Sat, 17 Jul 1993 17:37:12 -0700
> From:	A VAX's nightmare <[email-masked]>
> 
> So what I thought was this: Why not seperate it into two files? I mean, one
> would be dedicated to connections and perhaps the outbound connections, and
> the other would be dedicated to system moo 'system' entries such as
> checkpointing and security messages.  This would make the first file, say
> foo.connections.log, the busiest and leave the other, say foo.system.log,
> growing at a much slower rate, making it easier to find whatever it is that
> you're looking for.

I don't know about you, but almost all of my searches through the log are for
connection information, not for checkpoint notices.  Also, since `restart'
script has the server use a new log file each time it starts up (concatenating
the old log file onto the end of a sort of `historical' log), the current log
isn't all that long and doesn't cause me any problems to search.

	Pavel