[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq-2.53 release candidate 1

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Sat May 22 10:49:02 BST 2010


Simon Kelley:

>>            Allow --log-facility=- to force all logging to
>>            stderr. Suggestion from Clemens Fischer.

Clemens Fischer:

> I have all daemons running supervised by runsv, where the logs go to
> stderr and the superviser process manages a pipe between the daemon and
> the logger, which in turn does filtering, rotation and compression.
> This not only provides for very good logging, but also allows making
> one-off daemons/handlers easy.  Some of my programs are simple scripts
> taking network-I/O from stdin/stdout connected by ipsvd and logging to
> stderr.

Yes, but --log-facility allowed using files already if you included a
dash; so why does this need to be special cased?
--log-facility=/dev/stderr should just work.  For me it appears to do work.



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