Srdan Dukic wrote: > Is there any way to specify to Postfix to use an alternate file/daemon > for logging? I am trying to create a custom application that will > support email analysis in real time. In order to do this, I was hoping > to feed in the Postfix logs directly, instead of just using a system > such a 'tail -f' which I find to not be as robust as I would like. > > Ideally I would like Postfix to output its logs to a named unix fifo > pipe that would be read by my daemon process. In the configuration > documentation I can't find any way of specifying an alternative to > syslog. Is there any way to do this?
You should keep syslog, there are many reasons why it is better than "just a file". But replace your syslogd with syslog-ng or rsyslog, and then write logs for your parser to a pipe. Best regards, Thomas Gelf
