[Initng] The syslog plugin

[Ismael Luceno]

Eric MSP Veith escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> I have several programs that exclusively log to stderr, awaiting a logging to 
> like DJB's multilog or splogger to catch that output. With qmail, for 
> example, I've been using DJB's daemontools until now, and want to switch to 
> InitNG.
> 
> I've seen that InitNG is able to catch such logging output, too, and redirect 
> it to syslog via the syslog plugin. Looking into the code, however, I found 
> that the plugin might be fixed to use the LOCAL1 facility.
> 
> Is this correct? I want my qmail logging stuff (of course) to go into the MAIL 
> facility, so LOCAL1 doesn't seem to be the right destination.
> 
> 	Eric

The problem with the syslog plugin is that it needs to wait for syslogd
to be able to log something...

I was thinking about writing a logging plugin, I mean one that will take
care of writting the logs itself, and hold them in memory until / is
mounted rw.

If someone wants to write it, you're free to do so ;).


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