Logging in future upstart

[Casey Dahlin]

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Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 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
> 

Last time we talked about having Upstart itself do the reading you were
against it. Has this changed then?

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