[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm interested in taking the output of a daemonized shell script that > greps for patterns which would act as an argument to a script. Is it > better to write this stuff to file and visit the file every few seconds > or can this be done a better way. I'm hoping for a more elegant > solution. So far I've seen some troubling info about buffer overflows > with popen2 but it looks like the low-hanging fruit. I'm not a unixpro > so I want to make sure anything I tackle is best practice. Suggestions > welcomed. > > -Aris > Sounds like you should take a look at logdog. It uses fifo files to send the output of /var/log/messages and greps them for patterns. As the daemon just looks at the fifo file for any input, it is quite efficient.
I could be way off base about what you are trying to do, but it still might we worth a look. http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/LogDog/v1.0-old/ -Larry Bates -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
