[syslog-ng] pipe or unix-stream to feed another program ?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 17:36 -0500, Yves D'Astous wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am doing a new syslog-ng log server setup and I want to find the
> more robust way (minize lost messages) to feed a perl script with log
> messages "in real-time".
> 
> In case the perl script die during the process of the messages there
> while be a process to restart it,  
> 
> But what mechanism between the "pipe" or the "unix-stream"  while give
> me more control on the number of messages that can be buffer during
> the restart of my perl script ?

Both should provide about the same resistance, log_fifo_size() can be
set for both.

I'd appreciate some testing in this area though.

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Bazsi