A simple shell script could accomplish this: daemon | while read line; do logger "$line"; done
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 01:08 +0100, Eric MSP Veith wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > sorry for just popping in; there's something I want to say about logging. I > heavily use Dan Berstein's Qmail and Tinydns. As you might know, they do > not implement any syslog() call or logging functionality at all. Logging is > done via Bernstein's daemontools, where you can create a "log" service for > each daemon you start. Messages to stdin/stderr will be collected by this > seperately monitored logging daemon, which then does whatever you > configured it to do (e.g., from just handing it over to syslog over logging > it to a separate file with the tai64 time format to transmitting it over > TCP.) > > I, personally, like the idea. Nobody has to care about logging at all when > he writes a daemon. You are never urged to implement again and again a good > way to communicate to syslog or write your own log files with all the > careful checks you normally do when writing the logging part of your > program. You just printf() it. That's all. > > If an init system ever needs extra functionality, then its logging. It > wouldn't be much: Collecting everything the programs prints to stdout or > stderr, queuing it until syslog is up and running and handing it over. > > I'd really appreciate some kind of logging functionality in the init system > I use. Not only could I eventually integrate qmail/tinydns/dnscache with > the rest, I'd also know for sure that my log messages are really recorded > where I find them. > > Just IMHO, of course. :-) > > Thanks, > Eric > > On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Logging ... Err, we have perfectly good logging daemons in Linux > > > > already > > > > - why invent another and why build it into pid#1 ? > > > > > > Well, there's no reason to implement it, but there's no general > > > facility for that InitNG, that's why it says "Limited". I like to > > > have a generic interface for this just because some embedded systems do > > > not have syslog, in these cases it could be replaced by a simplistic > > > logging plug-in. > > > > All systems can have syslog() it's in the libc, and there are various > > daemon implementations -- many of which are small enough for embedded > > uses. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHTLGXfkUtd7QNU/sRAgXHAJ4oFNd3gmfvPfutF6Lx5p8FNetX5gCfZkRj > AMhNh1BNo3L1BkDEhMEfLAg= > =TGuc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- upstart-devel mailing list upstart-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
