Re: log to multilog instead of file

[email protected] (Paul Jarc)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
richard lucassen <[email protected]> wrote:
> (and sticky because it is version 0.70)

The /service/X/. directory is what needs to be sticky, not a program
executed by the run script.

> I think the use of /dev/stderr is a more elegant solution then
> the (mis)use of a fifo.

More reliable, too.  With a fifo, if the reader and writer both happen
to die, and there is data left in the pipe, that data will be lost.
svscan keeps the *same* pipe for the restarted processes to use, so no
data is lost, as long as the reader gets back on its feet eventually.


paul
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