[ZODB-Dev] zodb monitor port / tailing a .fs

[Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting]

>> On 13/10/2010 15:23, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> You can connect to the monitor port in 3.9 and earlier,
>>> if the monitor port is configured.  In 3.10, the monitor server is
>>> replaced by a ZEO client method, server_status. This tells you
>>> much the same information that's in the log messages.
>>
>> Okay, monitor port up and running now.
>> I see commits listed when I'm not expecting any.
>>
>> Do we have any kind of "tail -f /some/filestorage.fs" yet? (or have we
>> always had such a tool) to see what the last few transactions in the
>> underlying file storage look like in a human-readable form?
>>
>
> fsdump.py gets you pretty close (ZODB/scripts/fsdump.py). Between that and
> the Undo log for the DB inside Zope, you might be able to figure it out...
>

Of course, there is also the fstail.py script in the same directory, but
it has a different level of detail than fsdump, and at least in my version
(ZODB 3.7.3) it has a typo bug where Main() calls Main(path, ntxn) instead
of main(path, nxtn) (note capitalisation).


regards,
Darryl Dixon
Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com