Marc Perkel <marc@???> said, in message
433D909B.3080207@???:
> Can the "log file" be some sort of pipe into a program? I might just
> pipe the stream into something like netcat and process it on another
> server or do some other tricks with it. If this would work how would
> you specify it?
I don't think it would work in its simplest form. For example, if
exim forked, and the child then found a need to open the log, it would
end up launching a new copy of the program rather than talking to an
existing copy.
You might be able to do something cute with a named pipe, but basically
that's just reinventing syslog, so no real gain.
Cheers,
Alun.
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Alun Jones auj@???
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