Wanting to filter syslog output with a script attached to the syslog daemon.
I've been all over cpan with many search strings but what I turn up appears to be way more complex than I'm looking for. I thought to write my own script and have done so more than once. Relying on a named pipe to capture more or less live output from the system logger. I wondered if there is a way, or a module, that makes syslog write directly to a perl script some how. (other than a named pipe). Short of that, I'm just looking for a simple setup where I can feed the running script live syslog output and various filitering regex as different kinds of logs are desired for examination. Maybe just have the script reread a text file or regex every few minutes as it runs, and I could put what ever regex I want there. I don't really care how the syslog input happens long as it is live or close to live. Tail -f of the system logs seems like a pretty clunky non-live way, involving buffer flushes, and the named-pipe approach has some problems on opensolaris that I've forgotten the details of. But the script would have to be portable for linux and opensolaris Before I start writing my own script.... Can anyone direct me to a basic editable syslog filter script? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
