# Will filebeat be able read /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-filebeat-be-able-read-dev-stdout-and-dev-stderr/88880
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-filebeat-be-able-read-dev-stdout-and-dev-stderr/88880 "2017-06-09T18:48:02Z")
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### Author:  [@skyrocknroll](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skyrocknroll)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-filebeat-be-able-read-dev-stdout-and-dev-stderr/88880/1 "2017-06-09T18:48:02Z")
RUN ln -sf /dev/stdout /var/log/nginx/access.log
&& ln -sf /dev/stderr /var/log/nginx/error.log
I am using the above config to redirect nginx logs to stdout and stderr.
In prospectors if i point to /dev/stdout & /dev/stderr will it work ?
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-filebeat-be-able-read-dev-stdout-and-dev-stderr/88880/2 "2017-06-10T17:02:21Z")
filebeat currently does not support non-standard files. That is, no FIFOs, unix sockets, named pipes, devices files and others. I guess in most distributions `/dev/stdout` is actual a symbolic link to `/proc/self/fd/1` with `/proc/self` dynamically representing the current process accessing that directory . That is, trying to pipe content via `/dev/stdout` only might not exactly give you the result you'd expect.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-filebeat-be-able-read-dev-stdout-and-dev-stderr/88880/3 "2017-07-08T17:02:54Z")
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