Lumberjack

[oil]

Lumberjack:
Lumberjack is an on-device logging tool. It turns up the log level, and allows you to view and follow the logs for specific applications from the /var/log/messages file.

For a complete change log, up-to-date instructions, and all other information pertaining to Lumberjack, Please visit the webos-internals wiki page for it: Application:Lumberjack - WebOS Internals. Feel free to contribute to the wiki page as well.


Installation:
It can be found in the webos-internals feeds, and installed with preware, quick install, palm-install, etc.


Licensing Conditions:
Lumberjack is licensed under the GPLv2.

[Zen00]

Interesting tool. I hope that developers are paying attention as this will be very helpful in the debugging process.

[oil]

Originally Posted by Zen00

Interesting tool. I hope that developers are paying attention as this will be very helpful in the debugging process.

We also hope users/testers will use it to submit better bug reports.

[dsei]

While I haven't installed this yet, it looks great. Are there any plans to implement alerts on certain logs via a dashboard notification?

[Atomic Playboy]

Is it okay?




No but seriously, this is cool, I'll give it a try.

[MudShark22]

Originally Posted by Atomic Playboy

Is it okay?

It sleeps all night and works all day.

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by dsei

While I haven't installed this yet, it looks great. Are there any plans to implement alerts on certain logs via a dashboard notification?

That feature is already in place.

-- Rod

[codecrumb]

Lumberjack is all sorts of awesome.

[Blubble]

Sweet! Thanks so much for this Oil. Palm should have had something like this on phone from day one.

Just sent you guys another donation for this. Good work!

[oakridge outdoors]

A must have tool for every developer!

[dsei]

Originally Posted by rwhitby

That feature is already in place.

-- Rod

Great, thanks! Guess I should have played with it before commenting.

Depending on what can be logged, I can see this being used as a security tool. I'd certainly like to know if certain applications are trying to access my personal information.

[webfellow]

Thanks, this is great.

Also, I am amused at the name; if only because I always call my logging methods/classes "lumberjack".

[Dolio]

awesome!

how about adding:
* Timestamps.
* regex inclide/exclude filters?

[oil]

[Dolio]

Very nice!!

[Xanadu73]

Hey!

I see this over and over:

(LunaSysMgr) user.crit: void CpuShareManager::writeEntry(const char*, int): Failed to open cpu share file: /dev/cgroup/game/cpu.shares

Is this really critical? It seems like the kernel (F105) doesn't support something (Control Group Support?).


M.

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by Xanadu73

Hey!

I see this over and over:

(LunaSysMgr) user.crit: void CpuShareManager::writeEntry(const char*, int): Failed to open cpu share file: /dev/cgroup/game/cpu.shares

Is this really critical? It seems like the kernel (F105) doesn't support something (Control Group Support?).


M.

It's a webOS bug, unrelated to custom kernels.

-- Rod

[Xanadu73]

The Linux kernel support "splitting up" CPU clock ticks depending on group membership (Control Groups). Check "General Setup" in makeconfig.


M.

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by Xanadu73

The Linux kernel support "splitting up" CPU clock ticks depending on group membership (Control Groups). Check "General Setup" in makeconfig.


M.

Yes, and webOS has a bug which omits creating this directory until the first PDK game is run, yet checking for it constantly before then.

-- Rod

[Xanadu73]

Originally Posted by rwhitby

Yes, and webOS has a bug which omits creating this directory until the first PDK game is run, yet checking for it constantly before then.

-- Rod

Ah. I'm with ya now. Thanks, Rod.


M.