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Seems we all agree. Strange ... ;-)

I would suggest one more thing ... before you archive or send to yourself the logs ... process them with a script that'll strip out the repetitive "Everything's OK" messages and similar things. Eg. pretty much all my services/daemons "tick", they write once a minute or whatever the interval is set to a message that just means "I'm still alive and ticking, there's nothing to do for me." I want this info to be sure the service did not get stuck. Once a day I move all log files to archive, replace the groups of "ticks" with simple "Ticking $Since - $To", zip everything up and both archive on the server and mail to me. I also include some info about the log files and the environment to the body of the emails.

The script that "polishes" the log files can (should) parse the logs and add to the message body the number of processed tasks and (more important) the number of suspicious or errorneous messages.

This way you may be the first who knows about a problem and you may fix it before anyone else notices ;-)

Jenda


In reply to Re: Defensive Programming and Audit Trails by Jenda
in thread Defensive Programming and Audit Trails by FoxtrotUniform

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