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: unalloca...@exim.org Reporter: ivano...@riseup.net CC: exim-dev@exim.org 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 ? -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK and...@aitchison.me.uk -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
[exim-dev] [Bug 2982] New: Writing logs to standard output
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: unalloca...@exim.org Reporter: ivano...@riseup.net CC: exim-dev@exim.org 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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
