Re: [hobbit] Windows logs.

[ZanDAhaR <allan (at) zandahar.net>]

Thomas wrote:

> Yes this is what I ended up doing. I noticed that if I do a dir /X 
> then the 8.3 format is shown, but then I ran into the next problem and 
> this is wildcard filnames ie. syslog*.log as the logs are named with 
> the date in the filename. This require a total rewrite of the 
> bb-msgs.pl script as far as I could see.
>
> So I told the managers that this was not possible given the timeframe 
> on a windows box. :-( no happy about it.
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> /Thomas
>
> ZanDAhaR wrote:
>
> > Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > Hi !
> > > Any of you had to monitor logs on a windows box where the file is 
> > > located in a directory with spaces in ?
> > >
> > > bb-msgs.pl version 1.1 breaks if I try.
> > >
> > > /Thomas
> > >
> > >
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> > Have you tried taking out the space ? Convert the folder to dos 8.3 
> > format so for eg Program Files ends up being progra~1   Everything 
> > gets truncated to 6 chars + ~1. I know its Perl and not dos but it 
> > cant hurt to try :)
> >
> > Allan
> >
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I'm sure someone else could help you out with the perl expression but I 
think maybe it should be %syslog* or something. I'm not a perl junkie so 
dont take my word as gospel :)

HTH

Allan