On Thursday 07 March 2013 12:21:27 Sven Ulland wrote: > On 03/06/2013 12:09 AM, Thomas Neumann wrote: >> and you magically gain the ability to write this message to >> a logfile, to some remote logserver and to the console all in one >> step. > Have you given progress reporting any thought?
Nope. > This type of logging to a remote syslog server can be used to > implement a simple progress meter, for example by having the > syslog server match certain messages (such as those messages > that indicate the next step in the installation sequence), > or even errors. There is or was some kind of monitoring tool available which interacts with fai-mond. This ~may~ already provide what you're looking for. I'm aware it exists, but I have never felt the need to use it. [...] > So with extended logging capabilities like this, you get the progress > reporting possibility for free (with some work on the syslog server > side), but it could be that the idea should be expanded upon even > more. Is this useful to you? http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Log-Log4perl-1.40/lib/Log/Log4perl/Appender/DBI.pm bye thomas
