On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 06:49:56 +0200
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 04:59:16PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
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> >
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > You were so thorough giving facts that I didn't understand your
> > answer: Would you recommend using logger to transfer daemon stderr
> > (and configurationally stdout) to the log files?
> >
> > You appeared (to me) to say that logger does per default log to the
> > system logger, and (my interpretation but I know little) that system
> > logger could be either syslog-ng or rsyslog. If my two
> > intrpretations earlier this paragraph are true, I personally would
> > draw the conclusion that logger will write the logs regardless of
> > whether the computer is set up for syslog-ng, rsyslog, or some
> > other log writer, and thus logger would be the best and most widely
> > compatible choice.
> >
> > Do you agree that logger would be the best and most widely
> > compatible choice?
> >
>
> I guess I might have missed one of the points here: normally daemons
> provide their own way of logging to the system logger (they basically
> use the syslog facilities). So which logs are we talking about here?
> What shall runit redirect to logger which will in turn redirect to the
> system logger?

stderr, or both stdout and stderr if the final exec is preceded by
exec 2>&1 on an earlier line.

SteveT

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