<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Samuel Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:space.ship.traveller@gmail.com" target="_blank">space.ship.traveller@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I guess what I'm proposing is not a specific workaround but a way for legacy software which can only log to a file to get it's data into journald. There is plenty of software like that, unfortunately. It's a pragmatic option.<div><br></div><div>In this specific case, I'm referring to Nginx in daemon mode, which closes /dev/stderr as far as I can tell, and then spawns passenger, which can only log to a file. There is no way to hook up passenger to /dev/stderr.</div><div><br></div><div>The proposed service allows anyone to set up a fifo for logging in this situation, it's very trivial and easy to set up, but I suspect there is more than just one person with this issue.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you're going to run a service anyway, could you use e.g. rsyslog's imfile → omjournal modules?</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Mantas Mikulėnas <<a href="mailto:grawity@gmail.com" target="_blank">grawity@gmail.com</a>></div></div>
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