commit: 33db6ad55a866b9944d8038e036c7dce65e26eea Author: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2 <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Tue Mar 12 18:05:47 2024 +0000 Commit: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2 <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Tue Mar 12 18:05:47 2024 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/fifo-cronolog.git/commit/?id=33db6ad5
doc: add README & AUTHORS Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2 <AT> gentoo.org> AUTHORS | 2 ++ README.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ca8fed --- /dev/null +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Christian Ruppert <id...@gentoo.org> +Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ec95e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +fifo-cronolog +------------- +This is a little tool that connects a named pipe/FIFO into the stdin of `cronolog`. + +This is useful for cases where the logging destination cannot be specified as a +program. It was originally written to do logging from Squid, but later re-used +for Nginx & other tools. + +Cronolog's canonical example, in an Apache configuration +``` +TransferLog "|/www/sbin/cronolog /www/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log" +``` + +Is converted into: +1. Fifo-cronolog as (via your init system, so it gets restarted): +``` +fifo-cronolog /run/apache-access.pid /run/apache-access.fifo /www/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log +``` +2. Apache configuration: +``` +TransferLog "/run/apache-access.fifo" +```
