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On Friday 26 February 2010 20:40:40 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> ALERT [ This is a slightly rewritten repost from |
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> `gmane.[...].perl.beginners', where it got no responses] |
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> My subject line is probably not really that |
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> good at describing what I want advice on but here it is: |
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> I've setup one linux (gentoo) box as a logserver running rsyslog and |
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> several other linux boxes sending syslog info to it. |
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> I want to set the server rsyslog.conf so that in addition to normal |
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> logging to /var/log/whateverlogs it also writes everything to a named |
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> pipe (fifo). |
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> Then tap into the fifo with a perl script that is written to be able |
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> to sort and write the syslog output according to various regex that |
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> may be part of startup cmd or fed in later during the running script. |
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I don't know rsyslog at all (I use syslog-ng), but certain concepts are stable |
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and universal. |
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Any log daemon must receive logs from somewhere and send them somewhere, and |
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almost all support the notion of sending logs to a process instead of a file- |
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like destination. |
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Does rsyslog not support something like this: |
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destination "| /path/to/script.pl" |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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