mutilog via fifo

Hello list,

I have a program, "elhttp" (a simple proxy-server) which is started
trough tcpserver. The program has the possibility to write loginfo to a
file, but I want to use multilog. There are many ways to do this of
course. Problem is, that when I use /dev/stdout as file to write to in
the run file:

# cat run
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid nobody /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -vDRHl0 \
-c100 0 8088 /usr/local/bin/elhttp 0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 "/dev/stdout" 1

then multilog only receives the tcpserver messages. As a workaround for
this I can write to a fifo and let multilog pick it up:

# cat run
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid nobody /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -vDRHl0 \
-c100 0 8088 /usr/local/bin/elhttp 0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 \
"/usr/local/elhttp/fifo" 1


# cat log/run
#!/bin/sh
exec < /usr/local/elhttp/fifo
exec 2>&1
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qftplog /usr/local/bin/multilog t s1048576
./main

Is this a good solution or is this a dirty way to log to multilog?

R.

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