On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 12:23:38PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 31 July 2000 at 11:20:48 -0600
> > David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Really? If I want to tail a log file, eg, I go like this:
> > > >
> > > > tail ../someservice/current | tai64nlocal
> > > >
> > > > and it all looks fine for humans.
> >
> > > Yeah, it works fine for people who check log files by tailing them. I
> > > check them by bringing them into an emacs buffer, so the funny
> > > timestamps make them darned near useless.
> >
> > So why not tail them to a temp file and use emacs to view the temp file?
> > Or write an emacs-lisp function to convert the timestamps.
>
> If I'm going to go to effort to make it work the way I want, I think
> I'll just change multilog to use a sensible format. It's silly having
> archival log files sitting there that don't mean anything without a
> conversion program; straight text is the appropriate format for log
> files.
But it *is* straight text. The point about tai is that it's entirely
appropriate for log files that may live for a long time. Have you
read the rationale for tai at all?
Regards.
