Re: COMMON LOGGING FORMAT

[Alexey M. <mo...@no...>]

> 	   - are there any more logging objects?
Probably we should add not objects, but some kind of "state"/"stage" to
loggin', i.e. when a user logs in (just logs in, right in checkpassword,
an appropriate line goes to log, smth like this:
%U (%I) logs in (status: [success/failure]

> 
> 	   - should we have additional functionality beyond simply
> 	     substituting the variables?  I can't imagine any.
> 
> 	   - what are the exact points where log file format could be
> 	     overriden? per-repository (ok)?  per-module (oh, no!)?
> 	     per-branch???
> 
> 
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> COMMON LOGGING FORMAT
> ======================
> 
> 
> Logging objects
> ----------------
> 
> There are the following variables that are associated with each server
> action:
> 
> 
> Timestamp (T):
> 
> 	time of the operation
> 
> 
> Username (U):  
> 
> 	name of the user working with server
> 
> IP-Address (I): 
> 
> 	IP-address of user working with server (or "<local>", if
> 	working with
> 
> 
> Repository (R):
> 
> 	path to the repository
> 
> 
> Module (M):
> 
> 	CVS module name
> 
> 
> Subcommand (S):
> 
> 	CVS sub-command ('checkin', 'add', etc.)
> 
> 
> Branch (B):
> 
> 	branch we are working on
> 
> 
> Filename (F):
> 
> 	file we are working with
> 
> 
> Revision (r):
> 
> 	revision we are working with (or "-" if not applicable).
> 
> Info (i):
> 
> 	additional information specific for particular sub-command.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Log file format
> ----------------
> 
> Log file format is specifed a-la mod_log_config, using the
> /etc/cvs-server.conf:
> 
> 	# This will output all the information
> 	CustomLog /var/log/cvs-server.log "%T %R %U %I %M %S %B %F %r %i"
> 
> 
> This could be overriden on a per-repository basis from the
> CVSROOT/config file.
> 
> 
> 
> Log file filtering
> -------------------
> 
> Someday we could implement the logfile filtering, using the following
> notation:
> 
> 	# for all 'cvs rtag' commands, output the brief tag information
> 	FilterLog /var/log/branches.log "%{S=rtag} "%T %U %I %M %B %i"
> 
> 
> Probably we should not bother with it currently, because it could be
> easily done with a one-line Perl script.  But maybe there could really
> be the rationale for actually doing it on a server side.
> 
> 
> 
> --alexm
> 
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