[Gluster-devel] Inclusion of /var/log/messages in log archive in regression.sh

[Niels de Vos]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 03:45:28PM +0530, Humble Devassy Chirammal wrote:
> >
> 
> I suggest to use 'logger -s' to add a marker that a regression test has
> been started in /var/log/messages, and only copy the contents from after
> the last marker into the archive
> >
> 
> I doubt we need a marker, because its 'not' always we need to look at
> 'messages' file to see  whether its a  system specific issue.

But how many lines should get gathered? And I think that including
everything from /var/log/messages is too much. But, I also did not check
how big /var/log/messages is on a Jenkins slave...

Niels

> 
> --Humble
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:05:21AM +0530, Humble Devassy Chirammal wrote:
> > > Hi Atin,
> > >
> > > Have a check at current version of regression.sh here:
> > >
> > >
> > https://forge.gluster.org/gluster-patch-acceptance-tests/gluster-patch-acceptance-tests/blobs/master/regression.sh
> > >
> > > It should be a small patch near to line 109.
> >
> > I suggest to use 'logger -s' to add a marker that a regression test has
> > been started in /var/log/messages, and only copy the contents from after
> > the last marker into the archive.
> >
> > Would that make sense?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> >
> > >
> > > --Humble
> > >
> > > --Humble
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Atin Mukherjee <amukherj at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Justin,
> > > >
> > > > The current regression.sh code doesn't capture /var/log/messages which
> > > > means whether the system ran out of memory or not can not be justified
> > > > looking at the the log archive. I strongly believe we should capture
> > > > this message as part of archiving the log.
> > > >
> > > > Would you be able to do this change and apply it in Rackspace?
> > > >
> > > > ~Atin
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