[syslog-ng] [PATCH] autocreate fifo

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Fri Mar 27 18:55:59 CET 2009


On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:59 +0100, Peter Warasin wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> If you define a pipe as log destination, the pipe must exist before 
> syslog starts, otherwise syslog logs that it cannot write to the pipe.
> 
> That should be fine normally, but if *all* messages go to that pipe 
> syslog will cause a log-loop with those error messages.
> 
> The attached patch creates the fifo automatically.

Latest git (e.g. nightly snapshot) contains such a function.

-- 
Bazsi




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