Re: [exim-dev] Logging to a pipe

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:00 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:

> > It struck me that if Exim was able to log to a pipe - i.e. send the
> > output it normally puts in the various other logs out to a child process
> > via a pipe - that we'd greatly extend the functionality and availability
> > of real-time stats packages which can monitor Exim and spit out graphs,
> > reports, alerts and so on.
>
> But you can already "tail" the main log file to achieve this in as near
> real-time as you like. That's how eximon works.

And even better, if you use 'inotail' on Linux then you get a
notification from the kernel every time the other process writes and you
can then read from the file.

johannes