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nitro322
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Anyone know how to get Metalog to log in real-time rather than in bursts? I found this:
| Quote: | If you want to watch activity in real-time (like a good old "tail -f" on a
log file), you can temporary disable buffering. Just send an USR1 signal to
the "MASTER" process. You can re-enable buffering afterwards, by sending an USR2 signal. |
but really that doesn't tell me anything at all. What's USR1 and USR2, and how exactly to I "send" them to the process? Thanks. |
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Naan Yaar
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killall -USR1 <program_name>
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kill -USR1 <program_pid> |
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nitro322
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 12:47 am Post subject: |
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arkane
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 1:17 am Post subject: |
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they make a note of that in the install instructions, just to let ya know.
Little tid-bits of information floating around  |
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nitro322
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| arkane wrote: | | they make a note of that in the install instructions, just to let ya know. |
Yeah, I did see that, but it just says the same thing "send USR1 to it." Like I said, that didn't really tell me a whole lot. Must just be slow today... |
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Stormmind
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Will metalog remember that or is it nessecary to "smack" it on reboot?
Cheers,
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mdpye
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Stormmind wrote: | Will metalog remember that or is it nessecary to "smack" it on reboot?
Cheers,
/Storm |
It will need "smacking". If you want real time logging use a different logger, part of the metalog tradeoff for its high performance is the burst writing. Turing it off every time you boot defeats the point of using metalog at all, you would probably find syslog-ng more powerful.
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liquidx
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| Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| afaik, if you edit /etc/conf.d/metalog and add the "-s" option, it won't do any buffering. |
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