[UPHPU] Re: Using named pipe for MySQL error log

[Ben Reece]

> That makes sense. Is there a way to do a "non blocking" pipe so that I 
> can watch it whenever I care to, but otherwise the log data is discarded?
>
You can get the same effect with file logging and log rotation -- only 
keep around a day's worth of logs, then just 'tail -f' to see the 
queries as they come through.  Granted, you'll still be using the disk 
some, but you can rotate your logs more frequently if you need to.