WebSEAL routing file

This topic describes the details and specifications of a WebSEAL routing file.

The default routing file for a WebSEAL server contains message log specifications similar to the specifications in Figure 1.

FATAL:STDERR:-
ERROR:STDERR:-
WARNING:STDERR:-
#NOTICE:FILE.10.100:/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_%ld.log
:644:ivmgr:ivmgr
#NOTICE_VERBOSE:FILE.10.100:/var/pdweb/log/msg__verbose_%ld.log
:644:ivmgr:ivmgr

By removing the number sign (#) from the NOTICE specification and stopping and then restarting the WebSEAL server, NOTICE messages are written to a set of 10 files. Assuming the process ID of the WebSEAL server is 1017, the names of the 10 files would be:

/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.1
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.2
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.3
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.4
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.5
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.6
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.7
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.8
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.9
/var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.10

Message logging starts with the first file, /var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.1. After 100 NOTICE messages are logged to that file, messages are written to the next file, /var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.2. Message logging continues in this manner until 100 messages are written to the /var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.10 file. At that point, the messages in the first file are deleted, and logging resumes again to the /var/pdweb/log/msg__notice_1017.log.1 file. By default WebSEAL writes all messages to the standard error device. When WebSEAL is running in the background, standard error is redirected to the msg__webseald-instance_name.log file.

Parent topic: Message routing files