Github user d2r commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/822#issuecomment-163669693
@harshach
Use case:
A cluster admin shelling to a supervisor node and browsing all current logs
easily, without having to `cd` to other directories?
Are there other use cases? What makes this unacceptable to users? Maybe we
can come up with something better in general.
> We can let the supervisor to redirect(create) the worker-port.log symlink
to the topo/port/worker.log in launch-worker. Thanks for the explain. Btw, we
should care that some symlink may become dead link since its pointed file might
have been deleted by cleanup.
I am not excited about doing this, because it adds complexity to storm that
ought to be handled by either a logging system or shell environment. It seems
to me to make more sense to provide a tool for shells to make browsing logs
easier where they are, rather than adding complexity to storm to support the
shell.
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