[logs] ugliest application logs ever?

Marcus J. Ranum mjr at ranum.com
Thu Jan 24 11:53:32 PST 2008


David Corlette wrote:
>Quite frankly, your ugly logs are all amateur attempts at ugly logs ;-)  HERE is the ugliest log of all time:
[hideousness deleted]

I bow  to your log's ugliness!!

It seems that we have logs that are "ugly" (like yours) and then the
surrealist ones (failure: operation succeeded) and, perhaps, the
zen ones (entering guru meditation).

For goodness' sake let's not let word of this discussion leak out, or
programmers will begin to vie to see who can make the ugliest log
entry... I can picture it already: it'll be a syslog message in XML that
contains a uuencoded binary image of an executable that does a pop
up on the console reading, "an error has occurred"

mjr. 


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