[Swift-devel] log naming

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:41 -0500, Tiberiu Stef-Praun wrote:
> This means that I have to redo the Aphasia experiment recording tool !
> We should all have a discussion, and make decisions that we stick to
> in the future.

If you can identify the things that need to be discussed, sure. But
counting on nothing ever changing in Swift contradicts the fact that
it's in development.

On the other hand, this change is not final. If you can sort it out with
Nika and everybody else, I can change it back. To me they're both almost
equally good.

> Probably the main topic of this discussion will be the VDC, what goes
> into it, and how it will support lightweight tracking tools such as
> the ones that I and Nika are putting together.
> 
> Tibi
> 
> 
> On 9/13/07, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > Done.
> >
> > bash-3.1$ swift 001-echo.swift
> > Swift v0.2-dev r1213 (modified locally)
> >
> > RunID: 20070913-1234-zp0u8vjc
> > ...
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:15 -0500, Veronika Nefedova wrote:
> > > 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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