[Swift-devel] log naming

[Veronika Nefedova]

that sounds like a good solution. As long as I could grep/sort by the  
date - that'll help me a lot. I wouldn't have to type'ls -l | grep  
"2007-07-05 11" whenever I need to find any particular run.

Thanks,

Nika

On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> Having exclusively the date there might cause conflicts. How about
> something like this:
> MolDyn-20070705-1149-abcdef.log?
>
> So there would be the date, in a more readable form (it is already
> included very cryptically in the current scheme), and some smaller
> random number.
>
> Mihael
>
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:20 -0500, Veronika Nefedova wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am curious at how hard it would be to change the way the logs and
>> temp dirs are named in swift? Right now its a random number being
>> attached to the name of the .swift file. I do not find it really
>> helpful when analyzing the log. Would it be possible to attach a
>> timestamp instead of a random number?
>>
>> For example, right now I have a log file named this way:
>>
>> MolDyn-xgv2nuncojno1.log.
>>
>> And I would like to have the name to be this:
>>
>>   MolDyn-2007-07-05 _11_49.log (or any other standard date/time
>> format - I do not care about the actual format). All I care is to be
>> able to find the log of the run done on a particular day/time.
>>
>> Note, that this is not just the log naming. The remote working
>> directories also have the same suffix -- changing it to a timestamp
>> would help to locate the remote directories for debugging purposes.
>>
>> It doesn't look like a big change to do so I am curious how hard it
>> would be to implement it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nika
>>
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