Arch Linux

DerJudge

Member

From: NRW, Germany

Registered: 2013-03-26

Posts: 24

Website

Piped Logs in nginx

Hi everyone,

in Apache, there is a "Piped Logs" feature, which makes it possible to write error and access log files through a pipe to another process, rather than directly to a file; it's configured like this:

CustomLog "|/path/to/script param1" common

Is something like that possible with nginx, too?
If so, how? I could not find a mature technique to do this.

Slithery

Administrator

From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Piped Logs in nginx

You could create a named pipe and set nginx to output its logs there.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2156

---

No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
Closing -- for deletion; Banning -- for muppetry. - jasonwryan

aur - dotfiles

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,332

Website

Re: Piped Logs in nginx

I second the above.  Nginx does not support piped logs internally (unless it's a relatively new feature).  But named pipes would work - just make sure your listener process starts before nginx.

---

"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman

DerJudge

Member

From: NRW, Germany

Registered: 2013-03-26

Posts: 24

Website

Re: Piped Logs in nginx

Better late than never: Thank you for our very valuable feedback! Very appreciated! I will either try this or, as a second idea, have rsyslog grab that file and further process through our toolchain.