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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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In message <200811031448.mA3Em2Ow024387@lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:
>I have been taking a look at the fifolog(1) system in RELENG_7 and I 
>must be missing something obvious.  I created a file using default params
>e.g
>
>fifolog_create /var/log/all.fifo
>and then in /etc/syslog.conf I have
>*.*       /var/log/all.log
>*.*       | /usr/sbin/fifolog_writer /var/log/all.fifo
>
>It seems to work for the most part, but there are entries that are 
>missing throughout the log
>
>e.g. in the traditional all.log I have
># wc all.log
>     4833   55212  398099 all.log
>
>yet the fifo log file I have
>
># fifolog_reader all.fifo | wc
>>From    0 Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
>To      1225722724 Mon Nov  3 09:32:04 2008
>Read from 0
>      223    2783   23271
>
>There does not seem to be any pattern as to what it discards / keeps

Try using "cat" instead of fifolog_writer, so we can tell on which
side of the pipe we are looking for the trouble ?

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