fifo log problem

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon Nov 3 07:47:34 PST 2008


At 10:28 AM 11/3/2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>In message <200811031448.mA3Em2Ow024387 at lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:
> >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
>
>Try using "cat" instead of fifolog_writer, so we can tell on which
>side of the pipe we are looking for the trouble ?

Hi,
Seems to work fine with cat

*.*                      /var/log/all.log
*.*                      | /usr/sbin/fifolog_writer /var/log/all.fifo
*.*                      | cat > /var/log/all.cat

         ---Mike

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