On Saturday 27 February 2010 20:40:17 Harry Putnam wrote: > In the back of my mind there was a reason on opensolaris, that the > script would fail if the fifo was empty... Then once data comes the > script isn't listening. Or syslog won't write or something similar. > > I also have an opensolaris box that will be using this same script. > > I don't want to back up and relocate all that right now... Not sure I > have it remembered right either, it seems just easier to have the > script check before trying to start (for portability). > > Solaris syslog can write to named pipes but no so readily as linux > syslog. Not sure of the details now.
The rest of your post seems adequately answered elsewhere. FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost always useless for real work. I tossed syslogd on Solaris long long ago and migrated everything to syslog- ng. The nice thing about syslog-ng is that it actually *works*, and does so predictably. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
