[H-GEN] Logging over serial ports
Martin Pool
martinp at mincom.com
Sun Apr 11 19:38:40 EDT 1999
(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com>)
Craig Eldershaw wrote:
>
> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Craig Eldershaw <ce at comlab.ox.ac.uk>)
>
> OK, this seems to work:
>
> mkfifo /var/log/squid/squid.log
> mkfifo /var/log/apache/apache.log
> ...etc...
>
> logger -f /var/log/squid/squid.log &
> logger -f /var/log/apache/apache.log &
> ...etc...
Of course, squid and apache will hang if the logger process dies. (Or
will it get a SIGPIPE? I forget.) I'm not sure if I'd rather have my
httpd stop if it can't log (fifos), or just throw away the output (udp).
I guess under NT I could have both. ;-)
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