[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 31 July 2000 at 10:50:23 -0700
> 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?
Yes, when I first looked at it. As is often the case with Dan, I just
disagree. It's not straight text in the sense I mean; it's not human
readable. Of all the strange choices Dan's made that I've encountered
in working with qmail, this is the first one that I fail completely to
understand. All the others, I see the tradeoffs and I see why he
chose as he did, even if I might have chosen otherwise. This one
makes zero sense. It's non-functional. It doesn't connect to the way
I work.
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