On 2005-05-22T07:18:53+0200, John Torjo wrote:
(I also want logs older than N days to be gzipped, and log older than a certain date to be deleted; but I'm happy - in fact happier - for these tasks to be done by cron job not a logging library, as it is a system administrators decision not a programmers decision)
Let's leave it to the admin for now ;)
You may want to think of functor hooks in general. Before opening a file, check if we want to reuse an existing one and allow end-user defined formatting of names. After closing a file, check if compression is needed. After getting a log event, run a custom filter to throw stuff away by content. Before accepting a log event, check if the sender has been flooding you. Aggregating of data might be helpful (last message was repeated x times, instead of logging a sequence of events combine them to one log event if they occur within some time window). /Allan