Re: daemons logging to a file

On Friday 31 October 2003 18:16, Charles Cazabon wrote:

> > ERROR: Problem with internal logger. Please check the permissions
> > on the /dev/stdout file.
>
> Okay, no good then.  What program, exactly, are you trying to run?

clamd from the clamav suite (http://clamav.elektrapro.com/).

> Patching it might actually be the easiest solution.  Another might be

Not the easiest, but more robust than the fifo approach. Furthermore 
such a patch could fix (remove) several other design errors in this 
code as self-backgrounding, socket-io and set[ug]id.

> to write a tiny LD_PRELOAD shim library which makes the syslog
> functions actually just spit their message to stdout or stderr.

Confusing when you set syslog for logging in the configuration file when 
you mean logging to stderr.
-- 
Bernhard Graf