Timeline for How should users share long log files?
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| May 20, 2011 at 3:49 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @gilles that's incompatible with our engine; you want 50,000 character log files in every post? Or, worse, just "FIX MY PROBLEM (link to log file)?" No thanks. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 20:15 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
Speaking as an answerer, it takes me a lot more energy to deal with askers who won't post full logs (Post all the lines containing sda. No, not the first five lines, all of them. No, actually I need to see /md. Ok, I see the first symptom, now I need everything before this line. No, that line) than to locate what's wrong in a long log (if I have a chance of knowing the answer). Posting partial logs is like posting partial error messages. Don't do it.
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| May 16, 2011 at 2:09 | comment | added | boehj | I think a common problem is that for many users finding what's relevant in a wall of (obscure) text is the hard part. Hence wanting to paste up the whole shebang. There's always Ctrl+F to do a quick search once it's been posted to, say, paste.ubuntu.com. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 9:03 | history | answered | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |