On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 06:49:56 +0200 KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 04:59:16PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > You were so thorough giving facts that I didn't understand your > > answer: Would you recommend using logger to transfer daemon stderr > > (and configurationally stdout) to the log files? > > > > You appeared (to me) to say that logger does per default log to the > > system logger, and (my interpretation but I know little) that system > > logger could be either syslog-ng or rsyslog. If my two > > intrpretations earlier this paragraph are true, I personally would > > draw the conclusion that logger will write the logs regardless of > > whether the computer is set up for syslog-ng, rsyslog, or some > > other log writer, and thus logger would be the best and most widely > > compatible choice. > > > > Do you agree that logger would be the best and most widely > > compatible choice? > > > > I guess I might have missed one of the points here: normally daemons > provide their own way of logging to the system logger (they basically > use the syslog facilities). So which logs are we talking about here? > What shall runit redirect to logger which will in turn redirect to the > system logger? stderr, or both stdout and stderr if the final exec is preceded by exec 2>&1 on an earlier line. SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
