Ahh, "man mkpipe", you're mixing up a separate concept - streaming to a remote host vs streaming via a pipe on the filesystem.
>> standard approach in my corner of the world
Syslog streaming has been a common approach since the ~70s i'd guess? Likely before.
>> yet feel entitled to give ops-advice that is at odds with how the rest of the world operates
Hopefully, you see the irony in this.
you're mixing up a separate concept - streaming to a remote host vs streaming via a pipe on the filesystem
You said above, quote: but that introduces much larger problems and would in no way be compatible with the app rolling its log files.
Why would you have log-pipes, or log-files on your app-servers to begin with?
Syslog streaming has been a common approach since the ~70s i'd guess?
Then how come you're not doing it?
Hopefully, you see the irony in this.
All I'm seeing is a constant stream of arrogance that doesn't seem to be backed up. Also, the command that you wanted to helpfully point out is called "mkfifo" or "mknod".
>> All I'm seeing is a constant stream of arrogance
Perhaps not...