having more than one process write to one log

[Bill Moran]

In response to Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek at szalbot.homedns.org>:

> Hello,
> 
> I will appreciate your advice. Is it possible and *safe* to allow two 
> different processes (dovecot and exim) to write to one log? Better not do 
> it? I would like to have both data in one log but... don't want to cause 
> problems. I don't think Windows would allow it. How about FBSD?

That's what syslogd is for.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.

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