Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2982] New: Writing logs to standard outp…

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Autor: Andrew C Aitchison
Data: 2023-03-11 11:42 -000
A: exim-dev
Assumpte: Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2982] New: Writing logs to standard output
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, admin--- via Exim-dev wrote:

> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2982
>
>            Bug ID: 2982
>           Summary: Writing logs to standard output
>           Product: Exim
>           Version: 4.96
>          Hardware: x86
>                OS: Linux
>            Status: NEW
>          Severity: wishlist
>          Priority: medium
>         Component: Logging
>          Assignee: unallocated@???
>          Reporter: ivanov17@???
>                CC: exim-dev@???

>
> Exim cannot write logs to standard output. This creates some problems when Exim
> is running as a container process.
>
> I can read container logs when I run the daemon with `-bdf` option, but this
> only works with pseudo-TTY allocated to the container. Unfortunately, I can't
> collect logs from such containers.
>
> I have searched the web for a solution, but everything that I found is ugly.
> First, I can create symlinks to /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr instead of log
> files. Another option is to run multiple processes in a container (xtail or a
> syslog daemon). That is a wrong way, but even if I do, I need to write simple
> process manager and in the case of the syslog daemon, I have to run it as root,
> because it has to create /dev/log socket.
>
>
> It would be great that Exim could write logs to standard output and we could
> use someting like log_file_path = stdout in the config to enable this.


Does
     log_file_path = /proc/self/fd/1
help ?


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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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