[Swift-devel] log naming

[Mihael Hategan]

Can you give us more details about what this does?

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:17 -0500, Tiberiu Stef-Praun wrote:
> Actually I had the need to parse the log for "lightweight provenance
> tracking" purposes, and if you think it's useful, I am attaching the
> script that I used for this purpose (it's for the CNARI project)
> 
> http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/trac/swift/browser/SwiftApps/Aphasia/saveExperiment.py
> 
> Tibi
> 
> On 9/13/07, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> 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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