Re: single instance of multilog for multiple processes

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:16:12 +0930
Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote:

> (* Reply to /dev/null'd *)
> 
> (* Also have severe head cold - disinfect screen after reading *)

:-)
 
> > I'd like to have multiple independent processes log to 1 multilog. I
> > think the following solution using a fifo is a good idea:
> > 
> > $ cat run
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > while true; do
> >   /usr/local/bin/setuidgid loguser /usr/local/bin/multilog t \
> >   /var/log/multilog
> > done < /usr/local/multilog/fifo
> 
> If you're using this as a run script (inferred by the "cat run")
> then supervise will be sending signals to the shell, not multilog
> (and then the shell with do with it what it damn well pleases,
> which may include not passing it on to its child processes).
> 
> As supervise handles the reinvocation of multilog for you, a
> simpler scheme might be:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> exec < /usr/local/multilog/fifo /usr/local/bin/setuidgid loguser \
> 	/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/multilog

Yep. The exec < fifo is better. Thnx! For the rest: see reply to Paul.

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