On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 02:29:23 PM Satish Chandra Kilaru wrote: > I would like to receive events on unix socket in binary format. > There is already another program that is reading events from unix socket in > string format. I created another config file as below... > > active = yes > direction = out > path = builtin_af_unix > type = builtin > args = 0640 /var/run/satish_events > format = binary > > In my test program I am reading events from the socket > /var/run/satish_events > Surprisingly I see events in string format as well as binary format. > > Is it by design or a bug? I'd have to check. I don't think it was intended to run more than one instance. What is better, though, is to write the plugin to just read stdin. -Steve