Re: mutilog via fifo

Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only problem with this method is that the messages that were going
> to stdout and stderr (e.g. from tcpserver) are now going elsewhere -
> depending on how you invoked svscan this might be readproctitle,
> or just dumped into the ether.

No, those messages would still go where they were going before - to
the log pipe created by svscan.  But since multilog is no longer
reading that pipe, it'll eventually fill up and tcpserver will block
when writing to it.  To fix that, change the second line to:
exec > /usr/local/elhttp/fifo 2>&1


paul