Ok, I understand what is happening now, thank you!


On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 09:24:52AM -0400, CJ Ess wrote:
>
> > I've tried putting this directive into the nginx config file in both the
> > main and html sections:
> >
> > error_log syslog:server=127.0.0.1,facility=local5 error;
> >
> > The file tests fine and reloads without issue, however if I do fuser -u
> on
> > the error file (which is the same one used by syslog) I see that every
> > nginx process has it open. Is there anyway to be sure that errors are
> being
> > written by syslog and not the nginx process itself?
>
> At least one file-based error log must be present. In particular,
> it is used to redirect STDERR (as in some cases written to by
> various libraries), and it is also believed to be useful to log
> errors of writing to syslog when they happen. If no file-based
> logs are configured, a compiled-in default one will be used.
>
> --
> Maxim Dounin
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