Re: squid logging to a pipe

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Kendall Lister wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote:
>
> > is there a way to log the access.log and cache.log to a pipe?
> >
> > i mean instead of logging them to a file, would it be possible to tell
> > squid to pipe them to another program?
>
> Without even fiddling with Squid, you should be able to specify a named
> pipe as your log file - having never done this myself, I'm not sure
> exactly how you should set it up, but it would seem to be a good use of
> the technology.
>
try

tail -f <squid_log_file> | <program>

no need to fiddle squid

Rodel

 
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Received on Fri Dec 10 1999 - 23:32:57 MST