Jon Nelson wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> 
> > Dan Melomedman wrote:
> > > Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > > Dan Melomedman writes:
> > > >
> > > > >Mr. Sam, which 'logger' directive did you mention the last time? I want
> > > > >courierd's logs sent to a program, not syslog. Is this functionality
> > > > >supported? Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Nope, not in courierd's case.  Logs from other daemons could be easily
> > > > redirected, but not courierd's.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't this be a useful feature to have? Syslog is ridiculously slow
> > > among other things.
> >
> > Also, the design could be much more flexible if courierd ran in
> > the foreground, and simply wrote logs to stderr or stdout. Then a
> > sysadmin could use supervisors and loggers of his/her choice instead of
> > relying on the broken syslog, and the unriliable PID/lock files
> > mechanisms.
> 
> In general, I agree.  I use freedt (a *free* replacement for
> daemontools), and very much subscribe to that method of process

I like both daemontools and runit. I like runit because it's easy to
replace SysV/BSD init (this should have gone away years ago in favor of
something like runit) with it than with daemontools.


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