Redirecting output of non pid 1 process to docker logs

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How to redirect logs of non pid 1 process to dockerlogs?

There are 2 processes inside the docker container:

  1. pid 1 process
  2. non pid 1 process which writes to log file at path

Following docker docs
And specifically

The official nginx image creates a symbolic link from /dev/stdout to /var/log/nginx/access.log, and creates another symbolic link from /dev/stderr to /var/log/nginx/error.log, overwriting the log files and causing logs to be sent to the relevant special device instead.

didn’t help.
Only pid 1 process logs are redirected to dockerlogs

Performed steps:

1ln -sf /dev/stdout _path_ in Dockerfile

2 Running the updated image as container.
3 docker logs -f _containerid_ shows only logs of pid 1 process

There’s another official docker source

Which states

Docker supports different logging drivers used to store and/or stream container stdout and stderr logs of the main container process (pid 1)

So it maybe the reason for not seeing the logs of non pid 1 process.

Though, still don’t understand why the created symbolic link by ln -sf /dev/stdout /var/log/mysql/error.log hasn’t worked.

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if u docker attach to the container and ls /var/log/mysql/error.log -laF does it show as a link?

you might have to do the link at run time instead of build time…