[OpenAFS] Log Filtering

[Frank Burkhardt]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:01:41AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

[snip]

> >> The 1.4 series supports the ability to write debug and audit logs
> >> from the various servers to named pipes instead of files.   You can
> >> implement filtering by deploying a process that reads from a named
> >> pipe and outputs the desired entries where you would like them to go.
> >>     
> >
> > Is there a documentation or some hint on how to use this feature?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Frank
> >   
> I'm not sure I understand the question.   From a technical perspective
> all that was done was to
> remove a restriction that the file name which is opened for the purpose
> of writing log data must
> be a physical file on disk.  Now it can also be a pipe. 
> 
> Are you looking for documentation on how to use UNIX pipes or something
> else?

No, I just thought, there'd be some kind of undocumented cmdline parameter
for fileserver, volserver, ... - something like '-debug_to_pipe [filename]'.

Thanks for clarifying.

Regards,

Frank