At 10:28 AM 11/3/2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Tancsa writes:
>I have been taking a look at the fifolog(1) system in RELENG_7 and I
>must be missing something obvious. I created a file using default params
>e.g
>
>fifolog_create /var/log/all.fifo
>and then in /etc/syslog.conf I have
>*.* /var/log/all.log
>*.* | /usr/sbin/fifolog_writer /var/log/all.fifo
>
>It seems to work for the most part, but there are entries that are
>missing throughout the log
>
>e.g. in the traditional all.log I have
># wc all.log
> 4833 55212 398099 all.log
>
>yet the fifo log file I have
>
># fifolog_reader all.fifo | wc
>>From 0 Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
>To 1225722724 Mon Nov 3 09:32:04 2008
>Read from 0
> 223 2783 23271
>
>There does not seem to be any pattern as to what it discards / keeps
Try using "cat" instead of fifolog_writer, so we can tell on which
side of the pipe we are looking for the trouble ?
Hi,
Seems to work fine with cat
*.* /var/log/all.log
*.* | /usr/sbin/fifolog_writer /var/log/all.fifo
*.* | cat > /var/log/all.cat
---Mike
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