lianep at eng.sun.com wrote: > ... > >I'd like to eventually include similar functionality in OpenSolaris. The >problem is that we'd like these log files to be more structured so you can >actually do things like look for messages which precipitated a certain >failure, or look at unified output for multiple services, or just look for >restarter output, etc. Today, the logfiles are quite unstructured (and >unstable in their format), so we can't define a command which does >everything I detailed above in addition to what you've suggested. So, >the tricky part is to figure out how to structure the command, options, >and output in order to be able to evolve it for the long haul too. >
What are your thoughts on this? Is anyone tossing around the idea of having these log files become XML? Or just store it as structured data? Darren
