[Initng] IRC meeting

[Jerome Haltom]

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:
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> 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 <scott at netsplit.com> 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.
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