Re: log to multilog instead of file

Laurent Bercot <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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?

 Because X might use stdout for other purposes, and you might get
pieces of regular output (which you actually don't want redirected
to multilog's input) mixed with your log lines. stderr is the
right place to write logs - that's where you usually get error
and warning messages, which are precisely what you want to log.

-- 
 Ska
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