On Thu 14 March 2002 22:39, you (John Summerfield) wrote:
> [..]
> If you want to process all (or some) messages, one easy way is to
> mkfifo /var/log/programslog
>
> Configure syslogd to write to the FIFO - see the contents of
> /etc/syslog.conf
> Restart syslogd;
>   service syslog restart
>
> then open and read the FIFO with your program.
>
> You might add a script to /etc/init.d and chkconfig it so as to make
> your program start on boot like so many others do. The startup script
> might evem make the FIFO - if so then it must run before syslog's does;
> otherwise syslog with create a file.

Remember that FIFOs block until opened on both ends. Would it not cause 
problems in this case?


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