Re: daemons logging to a file

On Friday, Oct 31, 2003, at 07:17 US/Mountain, Bernhard Graf wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to run a program under svscan with logs piped to multilog.
> Unfortunately this program can only log to either syslog or to a file.
>
> My first idea was a fifo, that is read by a program that prints to
> stdout (cat) and let the program log to this fifo ... something like
>
> test -e "$fifo" && rm -f "$fifo"
> mknod -m666 $fifo p
> cat $fifo &
> exec setuidgid $uid $program
>
> This looks a bit kludgy. Has anyone a better idea (besides patching the
> program or using another one)?
> -- 
> Bernhard Graf <[email protected]>
>
>
>

Why not replace syslog with Gerrit Pape's socklog program?

socklog runs under daemontools, logs to multilog, and runs like a 
dream.  I use it on all of my servers.


http://smarden.org/socklog/


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Jeff Ross
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