[syslog-ng]Logs lost in the FIFO

[torpedo]

Thanks a lot Jay.

Is there any manual mentioning all these minor details of the
syslog-ng ?

Thanks and Regards,
torpedo


Quoting Jay Guerette <jayguerette@gmail.com>:

> They're dropped, lost, unrecoverable. There really is nothing else
> syslog-ng could do in those situations.
> 
> If your data is that important (and who logs un-important stuff,
> anyway?) you should write it to a log file, and the parse it from
> there; that way, if your parser dies, you don't lose any data.
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:02:01 -0600, torpedo
> <torpedo@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> > I have the confusion regarding logs which are not read by the
> > Destination programs.
> > 
> > In case of FIFO, if the destination program which is reading the
> logs
> > from syslog-ng is slow and unable to sysnchronise with the
> syslog-ng
> > and there is also a limit for the fifo buffer(amount of data it
> > holds) then where does thoses logs goes , are those logs
> > recoverable.
> > 
> > In other case of FIFO, if there is no destination program reading
> the
> > logs from the FIFO what happens to the logs which are collected
> by
> > the syslog-ng are those logs droped.
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