On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 8:41 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The cron jobs write to a log file which is overwritten each time.
>
> Errors should be detected and reported promptly by PingMyBox, but
> since the jobs run frequently, it can be difficult to recover the full
> log before the next run occurs. Generally the error message is
> sufficient to debug the issue, but there may be other relevant info in
> the log.
>
> I wonder whether it would be worth having a cumulative log as well?
>
> Alternatively, perhaps the status app could save a copy of any log in
> which it detects an error?
>
> Such copies should be in a separate directory to make error detection easier.
>
> There would also need to be a way to delete older copies once they
> have served their purpose.
>
> Thoughts?

Would something like the following suffice?

https://github.com/apache/whimsy/compare/copy_json_logs?expand=1

Feel free to merge or delete that branch as you see fit.

- Sam Ruby

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