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Currently, zss and app-server log to files in zowe.logDirectory via some scripting:
https://github.com/zowe/zss/blob/b1e08d732ee34f1fda127ebbc799ffab18d6247e/bin/start.sh#L55-L186
It's a lot. But in short, the scripting will determine a filename (component name + timestamp) and then delete the nth oldest such file, to keep a maximum of n in the directory.
Then, tee
is used so that content from STDOUT/STDERR will go both into the joblog and a text file.
Users very often send us these text files and no joblog. This is frustrating because servers that dont write to a text file then are missing from the logs.
It would be excellent if we can reproduce this behavior instead entirely within launcher, so all servers can benefit from it.
I've talked to APIML squad about this before and they seemed to want that feature too.
It should be behind a conditional, so that logging is only done when desired, but it could be on by default.
tee
has some issues though - it seems to crash if too many bytes are generated at one moment.
So, I suggest this be implemented instead by fileOpen
& fileWrite
functions by launcher itself.
https://github.com/zowe/zowe-common-c/blob/9e5b1c0cd397acf967489b598e01dec642ffd94c/h/unixfile.h#L406-L412
One could intercept lines to write from the launcher here
Lines 853 to 857 in 8e5a84c
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