Re: apache2 logs -> svlogd

[Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.asdfGroup.com>]

Hi!

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:17:06PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:25:32AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> > >Recommended solution was put 'sleep 1' before svlogd, but for me it's a
> > >little ugly and unreliable.
> 
> What isn't ugly about creating named pipes?  I don't think the named
> pipe solution wins the beauty contest either.

Named pipes... In short, I think named pipes is better because:
- this is universal solution which can be used for any daemon which prefer
  to write log files itself, for example: Xorg :) , xdm, ntpd, emerge :) ,
  iptraf, mysql, oops (webproxy), samba... maybe some of them can be
  configured to use svlogd, but not all (so SINGLE UNIVERSAL UGLY solution
  is much better than number of different custom more-or-less ugly
  solutions)
- svlogd for named pipe supervised by runsv and won't restart with it
  service - no problems with sleep 1 and so
- svlogd can be reconfigured&restarted without restarting service(apache)
- you can have many services sending their logs into same named pipe
  (can't imagine how this can be used in real world yet :))
- ... anything else?

> Ultimately we may need to go beat up apache developers.  ;-)

YEAH! :-)

-- 
			WBR, Alex.