Logging event to all destination

[kalkotivinay]

hi,

I have a source /dev/log which sends events to 2 different destinations.
1. remote syslog server destination
2. a unix-stream which is started by a daemon process

The daemon process gets the events from /dev/log and processes the events. If the daemon process dies, I see some of the events from /dev/log are lost if the remote syslog  server destination is also specified.

I guess this is because the syslog-ng manages events in a fifo.

Is there a way to make sure that the events are retained till all the destinations read the events ?

Thanks,
Vinay

[mutex]

Not that I am aware of.  An off-the-cuff idea is to have syslog-ng read in the logs from /dev/log and rewrite them to another stream file where the daemon can pick them up, without some other process (like syslog-ng) reading them and popping the messages out of the fifo queue.

[kalkotivinay]

If I do like this -
destination d_messages { unix-stream("/dev/mylog" log_fifo_size(1000)); };

Would it create a separate output queue for /dev/mylog ?. What if /dev/mylog is not yet created ?.