On Wed, 17.10.12 11:04, Simo Sorce (simo@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > I was wondering if /var/log/messages could be turned into a named pipe > to which journal start spitting out stuff in syslog format when someone > tails it ? Named pipes are single-reader streams. Also, for if they run full the newest data is dropped, not the oldest, hence they are quite unsuitable for a purpose like this. I think it is a much better idea to make it easy for people to discover the new tools (i.e. README file in /var/log) rather then trying to emulate the old behaviour with pipes or cuse, which will necessarily be incomplete and only working half-way. Especially given that people can easily get their log files back, simply by installing syslog-ng/rsyslog. > just a wild idea (and can be any other file name in /var/log as long as > it is easily discoverable and doesn't cause issues to existing utilities > that crawl /var/log), but I would strongly miss being able to tail logs > with my pipeline that does coloring etc ... (Side note: you get priority-based coloring in journalctl by default). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
