Re: [Bobs-devel] Todos -> Logs?

[Joe Z. <joe...@za...>]

Jochen Metzger wrote:

>Hi Rene,
>Hi Joe,
>
>i am inplementing for a customer and I thinking about logging stuff what
>we talked about a couple of months ago.
>
>Mainly I want:
>
>1. Have logging what has be updated and what failed.
>2. Be sure that bobs is still running properly
>
>as I work with companies and then let things running
>and maybe get notified when something went wrong.
>
>I have a couple of hours of budget to do some stuff
>and I want to discuss it with you first to then put
>it in the cvs afterwards.
>
>At present I wrote a workaround (quite a quickhack)
>that writes a timestamp and checks that.
>(I have to figure out, how I did that and if it makes
>sense to the main version)
>
>Any ideas ? 
>
>Jochen Metzger
>
>  
>
Have you got the latest version from cvs? It writes all output to 
bobs.log and includes the timestamp. I get the output from cron every 
day and I also run this cron command to give me a brief(er) listing:

    head -n 1 /var/log/bobs.log; /bin/grep -E ': Starting backup|: wrote 
|: total size is ' /var/log/bobs.log; tail -n 1 /var/log/bobs.log

It's helpful, but I was thinking of adding real error checking to the 
backup scripts to say things like "successful backup of <server/share>" 
or "backup failed for <server/share>", with optional email notification. 
But I won't be getting to it anytime soon.

To know if bobs is not running would require a 2nd cron job to check 
something, like the timestamp you write. I'm thinking that's what you 
have in mind. That's not a bad idea for monitoring your customers system.

Joe