On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Alex Young wrote:

> ara.t.howard / noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Alex Young wrote:
>> 
>>> It sounds like you're confirming my suspicion - that the only way to get
>>> process-safe logging is by having a separate logging process which
>>> everything else can connect to over some suitable RPC protocol... True?
>> 
>> no.  you could use locking of an external file (otherwise creation still 
>> has a
>> race).  but that solution would certainly work too...
> For my application, I'm looking at being able to scale to more than one 
> machine, so it's at least worth looking into - and I'd really rather avoid 
> learning how to set up NFS for the moment if I can :-)

check out log4r - i think it already supports a drb based logger.

cheers.

-a
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