Monthly ArchiveNovember 2004
Dcache & Work admin on 12 Nov 2004
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
CMS beginning to use dcache, sorting out issues – i.e. dcache doesn’t support data channel authenticatio for gridftp transfers.
Work admin on 05 Nov 2004
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Evaluating different methods of getting logs from syslog-ng into SQL, initally looked at piping the logs through a fifo to a mysql process, then put a sed script in between the fifo and the mysql to extract data, this had 2 problems – 1. when syslog-ng was restarted at 4am by logrotate via cron the things on the other end of the fifo would terminate. 2. The parsing of the logs was getting far too complicated for a sed script. So changed to using program() in the syslog-ng config, has the advantage of being started at startup and after SIGHUP getting round the cron issue, the program used is a perl script, which makes it a little easier to write the parsing too