Logging in future upstart

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 19:37 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> In fact, I just had an better idea: don't use a named pipe. upstart
> could simply read the stderr of all processes it starts, store that in a
> ring buffer, and feed a logger process from that (via stdin).
> 
> Replace any lines which the logger doesn't read fast enough (i.e. the
> ring buffer overflows) with a "<skipped>" marker. Auto-kill+restart the
> logger if it doesn't want to read its standard input for too long.
> 
This is pretty much what I'm thinking of doing - with the added bonus
that we can keep hold of this buffer and send it elsewhere on failure
like cron does.

(email output to root when apached dies anyone?)

Scott
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