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Re: [pcp] old style log dredging PMDA

To: Mark Goodwin <mgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] old style log dredging PMDA
From: Jeff Hanson <jhanson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 07:57:41 -0400
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On 07/01/2013 12:35 AM, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> On 07/01/2013 02:27 PM, Ken McDonell wrote:
>> Once upon a time we had (Mark wrote I think) a pmda that camped on the end 
>> of a
>> log file basically doing a tail piped into a grep selection to accumulate 
>> counts
>> of different sorts of log lines.
>>
>> It also handled log rotation.
>>
>> Does anyone else remember this, or am I dreamin' again?
>>
>> If it did exist at one time, anyone know where to find it now?
> 
> yes, it was called 'logtail' but the only remnant seems to be
> a slot in stdpmid for LOGTAIL. I think I must have neglected to
> open-source it at one point :(
> 
> Maybe someone still at SGI could release it? Jeff Hanson?

SGI in the US was on vacation last week.  Do you want me still pursue this?
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