Rick,
What is the architecture? In the following text everything seems to be a server, so it is not easy to understand your architecture nor your question. Can you please clarify? At 13:15 26.07.2002 +0200, peter riegersperger wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >hi all! > >we are working on a distributed application (running on multiple >servers) that should facilitate a remote logging system. > >that centralized logging should go into one logfile (since the >servers actions are highly dependend on each other), so i figured the >mdc would be the way to distinguish log entries from different >servers. smart? nope. the mdc of the logentries gets replaced by the >mdc from the logging server. if, for example, the remote server sets >MDC.put("hostname","host1"), and the logging server sets >MDC.put("hostname","loggingserver"), all entries from the remote >server are tagged with hostname=loggingserver. > >after reading the javadoc, this behaviour sounds reasonable (since >the socketnode treats all incoming logging events as local). > >i imagine that i'm not the only one developing for a distributed >system. so, how do you tackle the problem of tagging your log >messages? > >any input welcome! > >rick -- Ceki -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>