Re: [log4perl-devel] Using one config for multiple hosts and multiple applications

[Mike S. <m...@pe...>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Karsten Heymann wrote:

> We did that before but ran into problems with file rights (cgi-scripts
> running with www-data, developers testing the scripts as themselves)
> so we decided to go to use syslog as main logging target.

You can fix the permission problem with the file appender's permission
settings, but using a syslog appender is certainly an elegant solution
to consolidate all logs on a single host.

> This also allows us to use a centralized loghost, which together with
> a web syslog front end, should make searching the logs much easier in
> the long run. Although this would mean that a separate log file would
> be created for *all* scripts called with this setup.

Depends on your Log4perl and syslog settings, you can have it either
way. You just need to find a way to set 'filename' (or the syslog
category) in a way that makes sense for your environment -- you can
cluster certain groups of scripts together by classifying them into the
same categories and subcategories.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...