Re: multiple log streams

[Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-supervision@biaix.org>]

* Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.name> [20090402 10:59]:
> Hi!
> 
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:47:42AM +0200, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:
> > For a system I'm working on, I'd like to reliably store three different
> > log streams from a single process. Since runsv only sets up a single
> > pipe from a service/ to its log/, I believe I should demultiplex the
> > streams in log/run and feed them there to three diferent svlogd
> > processes, but I'm not quite clear on how to go about it. Any
> > suggestions?
> 
> a) use single stream, and then use svlogd features to filter messages and
> store in different log files

I need to read from log/current in real-time to check for alarm
conditions which I can't express using svlogd pattern matching.

> b) run 3 socklog processes as separate services which will provide you
> with 3 unix sockets, and manually log (using syslog syscalls or library)
> from your application different streams to these 3 sockets

That sounds feasible. Maybe multitee is an option too...

tks
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pica