[Opensim-dev] About log files ...

[James Greensky]

log4net is capable,

<lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock" />

be aware though that performance goes down the drain.

gsky

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Homer Horwitz <homerhorwitz at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Kyle Hamilton <aerowolf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >...
> > (Homer, the information on rolling file appenders is appreciated.
> > Many UNIX admins prefer to use their platform-native rolling
> > implementation, though, so they know exactly where to look in the case
> > of breakage.  I'd like to see if there's any way to do that?)
> With your native tools, I don't know (and wouldn't expect it, as it
> already provides a way to do it).
>
> OTOH, to solve your problem (to know exactly where to look if OpenSim
> breaks): You don't have to use "OpenSim.log" in the logger
> configuration, you can put in a complete path to the directory where
> all your logs normally are stored instead (e.g.
> /var/log/opensim/OpenSim.log). That way, your logs are at the "usual"
> location, even without using the native tools.
>
> If that isn't enough, and the perfomance hit by opening and closing
> the logfile for every single log-line doesn't deter you, I'm sure you
> could write a small appender that inherits from FileAppender which
> does this, if there is no such feature in standard log4net.
>
> Cheers,
>  Holger
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