On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Currently logs are 'shipped' to log01 which uses some syntactic magic > to put various logs into hostname appropriate directories.. eg logs > from xen10 go into /var/log/hosts/xen10/. However sometimes this does > not work correctly. hostnames are found via reverse lookups and if no > hostname is found then the IP address is found. So anytime there is a > DNS outage or problem, logs get shoved into directories like > /var/log/hosts/10.5.126.10/ > > In order to clean up the various spazes, I have moved all the files > into appropriate hostnames and made symbolic links so that IP address > points to hostname. Would it be possible to have puppet or something spit out a list of ips->hostnames from our dns records to a static nss_hosts or other hosts file to put on log01 so it never gets to a place where it loses a hostname? In a past life the logging infrastructure I worked on did just that. -sv _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
