Re: [mosquitto-dev] mosquitto logging

[Romu Hu <huruomu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Using "log_dest syslog", is it possible that mosquitto logs to its own 
log file instead of /var/log/messages?  My mosquitto broker runs in 
Ubuntu server 14.04.1 which has rsyslog.

Thanks
Romu

On 2014/10/31 21:54, Roger Light wrote:
> Hi Romu,
>
> If you're using the file log destination then yes, the broker does not
> flush the logs after each write. It is entirely up to buffering on
> your OS as to when it is actually written to disk.
>
> As Karl says, you can always use syslog.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Romu Hu <huruomu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems that mosquitto logs are not immediately written into the log file,
> > if you run tail -f /var/log/mosquitto.log, you can see a line stops in the
> > middle, e.g.
> >
> > 1414752777: New connection from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on port xxxx.
> > 1414752777: New client connecte
> >
> > It seems that logs are flushed into the log file every couple of minutes or
> > when the broker restarts.  How to make the logs go immediately into the log
> > file?
> >
> > And how to make the timestamp more human readable?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Romu
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