Re: Is qmail's log method inefficient?

[Balazs Nagy]

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Jos Backus wrote:

> fifo's are your friend.
> 
> ... errorsto /my/fifo ...
> 
> fifo /my/fifo | splogger

I didn't try it out on other platforms (UnixWare 7.1 will be done), but on
Linux errorsto didn't work after fifo generated the named pipe.  Apparently
because of waiting for the fifo process to poll out the log info.

I think it's a very good solution (ie. errorsto), but it would be better if
the program would be used as 'errorhandler loggerprog -arg1 -arg2 -- program
-arg1 -arg2...' as in xinit.

BTW as I mentioned earlier, I have compiled qmail successfully on SCO
UnixWare 7.1 with *very* small changes.  It's still in alpha, but if the
results are good, I'll post my changes to Dan.
-- 
Regards: Kevin (Balazs)