[gberz3]

Hi All,

Is there any way to get the console to display each and every occurrence of an event as opposed to saying "last message repeated 37 times"? I realize the usefulness of being this concise, but I'm developing items in which I need verbosity. Obviously I could put a tail on the server log via the terminal, but I prefer using Console for convenience sake.

Best.

UPDATE: Actually the "system.log" file displays "last item repeated" as well, so I definitely need a workaround.

[CharlesS]

Capture the process's stdout/stderr?

[gberz3]

Thanks for the post Charles. Is that the only solution? With the various applications I explicitly write to the log, and I often need to track more than one app at a time, to monitor interaction, etc. You can imagine what a pain it would be to manually track stdout for each app whenever I needed it.

I'll keep looking, I'm *sure* there's got to be something to force verbosity.

Thanks again.

[drp]

Check out the man page for syslogd -- the normal UNIX service that handles message logging. Check out the option for -dup_delay

-dup_delay
Sets the time to delay for coalescing duplicate message in log
files. If a process logs multiple messages with the same
text, syslogd will wait for the specified period of time to
coalesce duplicates. If identical messages arrive during this
interval, syslogd will print a message of the form:

May 7 12:34:56: --- last message repeated 17 times ---

The default delay time is 30 seconds. Setting the value to 0
disables the coalescing mechanism.

To enable the option, you'll most likely need to update /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist to include -dup_delay 0 as an additional String under ProgramArguments