[Swift-devel] log naming

[Tiberiu Stef-Praun]

It parses the log for information to be displayed through this UI:
http://tp-neurodb.ci.uchicago.edu:8080/ExperimentManagement/

for instance:
http://tp-neurodb.ci.uchicago.edu:8080/ExperimentManagement/experimentDetails.jsp?experiment=8fttz6fsrfjn2

Tibi

On 9/13/07, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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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Tiberiu (Tibi) Stef-Praun, PhD
Research Staff, Computation Institute
5640 S. Ellis Ave, #405
University of Chicago
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