On Sunday 25 December 2011 04:46:49 Rajko M. wrote:
On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 08:24:06 AM Peter Nikolic wrote:
plain text log files please ..
I liked that argument and repeated it a lot, but what means plain text.
Ok lets try another way round that then shall we hows about Human Readable not containing any of the upper 128 Chars of the Character set .
Log is not paper copy, which requires only eyes to read it. It is long string of characters written as one or more strings on a hard disk using file system. There is nothing to see if you don't have running a pile of software starting with kernel and ending with text editor. Even with all that you have to know meaning of fields to be able to understand each line. Then when you understand each line you need other software that will collect data from multiple lines spread accross log file, to actually understand what is going on.
Having specialized editor for log files can only improve our ability to make use of logs, and then "text only" makes no more sense, as it is just inefficient way to store and later parse event data.
Nope just plain old boring no special tools text please the only way lets get away from this darn windowsisation of Linux and head back to a more friendly way of life Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.4-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) "release 7" 08:24 up 23:39, 4 users, load average: 1.02, 1.05, 1.07 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org