Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]

Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-17T14:32:34Z

>> >> any good daemon closes stdout, stderr, stdin
>> >
>> >A real good daemon would redirect them to /dev/null.
>>
>> and writes to /var/log/mysql/...
>
>And has log rotation. Apache has log rotation. Squid has log rotation.
>
>Why they all need to have log rotation code? I forced them all to just

I dunno. SUSE Linux (no advertisement intended) uses a global solution -
"logrotate" rather than using each project's own logrotation.

>write log to stderr, and multilog from daemontools does the logging
>(with rotation and postprocessing (for example, feeds Squid log into
>Mysql db)) just fine.
>
>But we digress. Is there any magic (mount --bind?) to make
>/dev/stderr undestructible?

If not, you could write an LSM that prohibits unlinking /dev/stderr.

Jan Engelhardt
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