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| author |   Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> | 2024-03-12 11:05:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> | 2024-03-12 11:05:47 -0700 |
| commit | 33db6ad55a866b9944d8038e036c7dce65e26eea (patch) | |
| tree | 93ba377abf6a080812ee3d86ac237620c60ff963 | |
| parent | build: cleanup Makefile (diff) | |
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doc: add README & AUTHORS
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
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@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org> +Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ec95e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +fifo-cronolog +------------- +This is a little tool that connects a named pipe/FIFO into the stdin of `cronolog`. + +This is useful for cases where the logging destination cannot be specified as a +program. It was originally written to do logging from Squid, but later re-used +for Nginx & other tools. + +Cronolog's canonical example, in an Apache configuration +``` +TransferLog "|/www/sbin/cronolog /www/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log" +``` + +Is converted into: +1. Fifo-cronolog as (via your init system, so it gets restarted): +``` +fifo-cronolog /run/apache-access.pid /run/apache-access.fifo /www/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log +``` +2. Apache configuration: +``` +TransferLog "/run/apache-access.fifo" +``` |