On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:22 -0700, William Bell wrote:
As a feature request / bonus to this conversation, has any investigation been done into adding create fifo ability to the pipe source driver. Im sure that everyone could benefit from pipes that are created and torn down by syslog-ng so that unless syslog-ng is holding the pipe open and holding ownership of the pipe the pipe does not exist. This would be an extra added bonus on the security front. Its an ok fix to have the pipe created by the startup script and even torn down by that same script, however if for some reason syslog-ng crashes or an administrator thinks it's a good idea to just kill off the process that pipe hangs around and is a potential security risk.
good idea :) -- Bazsi