Re: where to put helper to send stdout/stderr to syslog?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> I think it could be made part of shepherd and be exported there, then everyone
> could use it.  Logging to syslog isn't exactly an obscure requirement :)

+1!

> Although shepherd already has its own /dev/log (syslog) client implementation,
> the external "logger" executable (or similar) is still necessary, because
> /dev/log is a UNIX domain socket and one can't write to UNIX domain sockets
> the same way one does pipes.  Although it might be possible (and not
> advisable) to connect() the socket and then dup it to 1 and 2 for the child :P

Yes, that should be enough.

Robert, would you like to give it a go?

Thanks,
Ludo’.