Fifo buffer question

[Thomas Charron]

  Use the right tool for the job.  multilog is a utility which you pipe
your stdout/err to, and it maintains logs, including log rotation, etc..
So it can be spewing out all the time, but you can have say, 3 logs based
on 100k each.


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Curt Howland <Howland at priss.com> wrote:

> Good afternoon.
>
> I have a background process running from which I would like, from time
> to time, to check the console output. I do not want to dedicate a
> console window to it, and since I start it from a script the console
> output is usually just lost to the akashic ethers.
>
> I've not played with fifo buffers, but I'm wondering. Could I start
> the process with " > fifo-buffer.txt" and then when I want to check
> the output, run a "tail -f fifo-buffer.txt" for a few minutes?
>
> Since this is not a usual background process with log rotation and
> such, I don't want to fill my disk with a text file dump. But it would
> be nice to check in and make sure it's running without killing it and
> restarting.
>
> Suggestions?
>
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