Re: logfile helper

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Andrey Chichak wrote:
>
>> I have patched Squid-2.5.STABLE10 to write logs into pipe.
>> Write in config file:
>> cache_access_log |<some script>
>> and access log would be catched with script.
>> During logrotate pipe is reopened.
>>
>> I think this is useful for realtime log analize.
>
> Interesting.
>
> There is some areas where this can be improved however.
>
> 1. The writes to the pipe should be non-blocking to avoid halting Squid
> if the script can not keep up.
>
> 2. To deal with the pipe being non-blocking you need buffering of the
> log writes. And a (perhaps configurable) limit of how much log data can
> be buffered.
>
>
> And then the obvious but less fun, for these changes to make it into the
> main Squid code tree it needs to be made within the Squid-3 tree.
> Squid-2.5 is feature frozen since many years back..

I need something like this for squid-2.6.STABLE2 (built from the FC6 SRPM)

Has anyone applied this to squid-2.6?

Are there any other log-to-pipe solutions ?

Thanks,

R.
Received on Fri Jun 01 2007 - 15:40:19 MDT