fifo log problem

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon Nov 3 06:48:08 PST 2008


I have been taking a look at the fifolog(1) system in RELENG_7 and I 
must be missing something obvious.  I created a file using default params
e.g

fifolog_create /var/log/all.fifo
and then in /etc/syslog.conf I have
*.*       /var/log/all.log
*.*       | /usr/sbin/fifolog_writer /var/log/all.fifo

It seems to work for the most part, but there are entries that are 
missing throughout the log

e.g. in the traditional all.log I have
# wc all.log
     4833   55212  398099 all.log

yet the fifo log file I have

# fifolog_reader all.fifo | wc
>From    0 Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
To      1225722724 Mon Nov  3 09:32:04 2008
Read from 0
      223    2783   23271

There does not seem to be any pattern as to what it discards / keeps

         ---Mike


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