On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Sweth Chandramouli wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 04:58:12PM +0100, Tycho Fruru wrote: > > Only caveat is that you have to stop the network part from sending out the > > messages whenever it's inconvenient. (stoppig the process works like a > > charm ;-) Messages will then remain in the outbound queue. > OK, I've grovelled through the source, and it appears that > ipfc on the client side has two daemons--one that reads the logfiles and > converts them into XML files in a queue directory, and then another that > scans that directory every ten seconds (well, with a ten second interval > between scans), and attempts to use LWP::Agent to push any XML records > found to the listening daemon on the loghost, deleting those records that > are successfully pushed. If that's true, why would you need to stop the > process (other than not wasting resources if you know that you'll be > offline for a while, and not filling the ipfc logs with messages about > failed connect attempts)? The reason you cited was the reason for my remark ;-) ... you don't want to try to connect to non-existent machines. Cheers, Tycho -- Tycho Fruru tycho.fruruat_private Users' impressions of different operating systems, expressed as emoticons: Linux: :) Windows: XP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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