Re: log to multilog instead of file

On Thu, 27 May 2004 13:06:27 +0200
Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I have program X. X writes to syslogd, but is also able to log to a
> > file with the -l option. X runs supervised and I want X to log
> > through multilog.
> > 
> > I now resolved this using a named pipe (daemontools-0.70):
> 
>  It should be okay.
>  (You might want to use daemontools-0.76 instead, to be able to
> rotate your logs at will with SIGALRM, for instance.)

0.70 still works perfectly well ;-)
 
> > But I'm afraid this is a rather dirty solution. Is there a solution
> > that is more elegant than this one?
> 
>  If your system provides /dev/stderr, /dev/fd/2, or such a device, you
> could use the -l option to log to that "file". This will use X's
> standard error, which you can then redirect to multilog's input.

Ok, this works great. I use /dev/stderr which is a symlink to
/proc/self/fd/2. Just a question: why not use /dev/stdout instead of
stderr?

R.


/usr/local/sbin/X/run:

#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec X -l /dev/stderr

/usr/local/sbin/X/log/run:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid Xlog \
/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/X

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