[Log4cpp-devel] Remote logging

[Thomas M. <Tho...@un...>]

Hi gurus,

yesterday I had a look at this project and first thing I unfortunately
noticed was that a SocketAppender is missing.  I also browsed through
the CVS and did not find anything.  I also saw one or two RFEs and I
think one or two postings requesting one so I really guess there is none
:).  I'd just like my logging to go somewhere else on screen.  I quickly
thought of some options I have:

I could use "tail -f" but somehow I don't like the "lag".

Then I could open another xterm, get the tty and tell a FileAppender to
log there.  But then again different xterms get different ttys and I
don't wanna hack all my config files when this information changes. 
Btw, is there a way to tell an xterm the tty to use?

Then I could use a fifo, tell a FileAppender to log there.  This works
fine if I have an xterm open with a "cat /tmp/fifo".  But of course it
sucks when I don't have it running because the open() call in
FileAppender blocks.  Of course this could be solved with an O_NONBLOCK
but open flags do not seem to be configurable (I looked at
PropertyConfiguratorImpl.cpp).

So I quickly hacked a SocketAppender which sends logging output (albeit
no serialized LoggingEvents due to obviuos reasons) to a socket and a
little program I called sockcat which just dumps everything read from a
socket (btw, does netcat have an option to "listen forever"?  besides
starting it in an endless loop?).  This works but of course this is also
not "property configurable".

So I could waste^H^H^H^H^H invest some creative energy here.  Would this
be welcome and appreciated?  Or, even better, do you know a quick
solution to the above?

advTHANKSance and regards, Thomas.

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Thomas Maier (Tho...@un...)