[Bro-Dev] [Bro-Commits] [git/broctl] topic/dnthayer/cleanup2: Ignore stdout.log and stderr.log in post-terminate (a2a3b0d)

[Aashish Sharma]

> > can include helpful information. What do others think, is that
> > something to keep?

Yes, please keep! I have found these two files useful many times. It will be nice to keep a copy of both in the post-terminate directory.

Granted, they are not bro logs (format) but information they contain is still useful and their name makes it easy to understand what to expect in these two files. 

Aashish 


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:54:22PM -0500, Daniel Thayer wrote:
> On 03/21/2013 06:34 AM, Robin Sommer wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 14:45 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >>      Ignore stdout.log and stderr.log in post-terminate
> >
> > The idea here was to archive them just as other logs as sometimes they
> > can include helpful information. What do others think, is that
> > something to keep?
> >
> > Robin
> >
> 
> That's true, but in those cases a crash report is sent (which
> includes the contents of both of those files, plus others), and
> those files are also left in the
> <tmpdir>/post-terminate-<date>-<time>-crash directory (this
> directory contains both of those two files, plus others, and is
> kept on the system until someone runs "broctl cleanup --all").
> 
> Also, those two files are not Bro logs (i.e., not in a Bro log
> file format), so I thought it might be confusing to store them
> in the same directory (with same file extension) as the Bro logs.
> 
> -Daniel
> 
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