On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > What is the advantage of making a named pipe and going through all > that when it works fine in this straightforward manner?
1. You'll hit the filesystem less. Since you don't have a '-' before the file, syslogd does a sync after every write. If you do put the '-' in, you won't see the messages till the next time those buffers get flushed; that kind of takes away the whole point of running xconsole. 2. You have this nasty file in your root partition that gets bigger and bigger. It's probably a good idea to keep activity to your root partition to a minimum. If you suffer some disaster, you can still boot. 3. It's a cool feature, and you should use it. Guy
