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