Re: rolling over high-traffic logfiles?

[Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:11:17PM +0530, Nitin P Garg wrote:
> how about making the file a named pipe ? 
> then a process could simply read from it and write to a somefile.date and the
> reading process could simply keep changing .date part as frequent as one
> programs it to.

Tbis is what fifo and cyclog (part of Dan Bernstein's daemontools package, see
http://www.pobox.com/~djb/daemontools.html) do.

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