[Glass] RPS gems and logging

[Iwan Vosloo via Glass]

Hi there,

I have a question regarding logging in the scenario where you have an 
RPC gem which is started by netldi on a node where the target stone 
resides. Assume also possibly more than one different stone running here.

I'd like to control where the RPC gem would log. Now, AFAIK, you can do 
this from the connecting client's side by changing the NRS, but I don't 
want clients to have to know this. So the other way to do this is by 
setting GEMSTONE_NRS_ALL=#dir:/some/where but the problem with this is 
that GEMSTONE_NRS_ALL applies to all stones started by the single netldi 
in whose environment you set the variable.

I want to log everything to do with a specific stone (including the gems 
started for it) in one place.

The docs say: "If you set GEMSTONE_NRS_ALL before starting a Stone, an 
application, or a utility (such as copydbf), that setting applies only 
to your own processes and does not affect other users.
"

...so I have tried setting it when running startstone for that 
particular stone only (NOT for startnetldi) - yet it seems to be ignored 
(which makes sense since the stone is not the thing starting up the gem).

The other way I can think of doing this is to have my own modified 
scripts in $GEMSTONE/sys that set GEMSTONE_NRS_ALL based on the stone 
you want to connect to, but that feels like reinventing the wheel.

Is there any way to achieve what I want to do without involving the 
connecting client's NRS or starting differently named netldi's or 
changing the standard sys/ scripts?


Reards
Iwan