SYNOPSIS

       socklog-check [-v] [unix [address]]

DESCRIPTION

       socklog-check  attempts  to  connect  to  a socklog(8) unix service and
       reports whether the connection attempt succeeded or not.

       It connects to the datagram oriented unix domain  socket  address,  and
       reports  success through the return code.  If address is not specified,
       socklog-check attempts to connect to /dev/log.

       When running services that use the syslog facility under  runit's  ser-
       vice  supervision, socklog-check should be added to the top of the ser-
       vice's run script to ensure that no syslog messages are generated until
       a syslog service is up and running to process the messages, e.g.:

        #!/bin/sh
        socklog-check || exit 1
        exec service_using_syslog

OPTIONS

       -v     verbose.  Print verbose message to standard error.

EXIT CODES

       On success socklog-check returns 0.

       On  error,  socklog-check  prints a message to standard error and exits
       111.

SEE ALSO

       socklog(8),  socklog-conf(8),  svlogd(8),  tryto(1),  uncat(1),  sv(8),
       runsv(8), runsvdir(8)

        http://smarden.org/socklog/
        http://smarden.org/runit/

AUTHOR

       Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>



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