[syslog-ng] [RFC] procfile destination

[Balazs Scheidler]

I have now submitted a pull request to merge the "pseudofile" destination,
I've now skipped the support for destination file templates, but that can
be added later on when a more concrete usecase shows up. It already solves
Valentijn's use-case, so it is useful as it is.

I wanted to close some of my open branches :)

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Bazsi


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu> wrote:

> Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> writes:
>
> > - no template in the name of the file
>
> Would it be possible to have templates in the filename? I can imagine
> cases where I'd write to a different file based on message properties.
>
> Like, if I start to see alerts that stuff is timing out, I'd spin up my
> second CPU core (in a laptop setting, where I can't be bothered with
> proper monitoring, and want to (ab)use syslog-ng for that task).
>
> > - name of the driver, right now it is called procfile as it was the
> > original use-case, however it works with stuff in /dev too, and might
> > work with simple named pipes.
>
> It also works with stuff in /sys, so procfile() is not a good name. I
> would suggest oneshot-file() or simply oneshot().
>
> > - right now the file must exist and is not created (e.g. it really
> > requires an existing file); do we need that?
>
> I do not think file creation is important in this case.
>
> > - do we need append mode in some cases
> > - whether we need append mode (if we think of general files, this would
> > probably be needed)
>
> I don't think we do.
>
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