[tech] [wheel] Cokelog

[Luke Williams]

May I ask why this was forwarded to me? I was poking around at how the
system worked a few days ago, but I'm pretty sure I didn't (and indeed
couldn't) write or execute anything.

--luke

On 5/31/06, Nick Bannon <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:39:38PM +0800, Rhys Bevilaqua wrote:
> > somebody messed up the permissions on the cokelog, also sometime before
> > 1:38pm monday can somebody check that there are no multiple dispenses
> > for me since the coke machine was erroring when i tried to dispense a
> > coke zero.
>
> That should fix it - this year's cokelogs are now readable from
> /home/other/coke/cokelog again.
>
> Sorry about the delay - here were your two? dispenses:
> May  8 12:27:23 mermaid <drink>: success - add -86 cents to rhys [null c0ke] by rhys [balance 623]
> May  8 13:32:34 mermaid <drink>: success - add -86 cents to rhys [null c0ke] by rhys [balance 537]
>
> Both mussel and mermaid had been writing to that file, which has caused
> some corruption of that copy of the logs. mermaid is the dispense server,
> it does the writing of the logfile; it will now also listen to logs from
> mussel. (which required a "-r" parameter in mussel:/etc/init.d/sysklogd
> and a syslog entry in mermaid:/etc/init.d/ucc-fw )
>
> mussel is not the (drink) dispense server, however it's handling the
> snack machine, and talks to the dispense server to deduct cokecredit.
>
> /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd on a Debian machine will automagically try to
> rotate all the log files, but you can edit it to prevent that. The
> changes will be preserved as you upgrade, like any other conffile
>
> To confuse matters, mermaid has logrotate installed as well, that lets
> you rotate things more cleverly, i.e. "don't rotate the cokelog unless
> it hits 100M".
>
> Nick.
>
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