> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> boun...@lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of da...@lang.hm
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:14 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] OMPROG data not being received
> 
> now I'm a little puzzled.
> 
> how is omprog better than the old sysklog approach of |/path/to/script?

It's not a script, it's a pipe. omprog actually starts up the script. In
theory, it also restarts it if it dies (I say in theory because after I had
written the module, those that had interest in it never again showed up -- so
I did not put much more effort into it at that time).

Rainer

> David Lang
> 
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> 
> > Great. It is important to know that omprog only writes what you tell
> it. So
> > if the program waits for a NL, this must also be written. As a side-
> note,
> > waiting for end of file would not make much sense at all: opening and
> closing
> > the pipe for each message would be enormous overhead.
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> >> boun...@lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Mark Olliver
> >> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 4:51 PM
> >> To: rsyslog-users
> >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] OMPROG data not being received
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thanks that is fixed, by adding "\n" to the end of my template it
> now
> >> flushes to the script straight away.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> On 10 February 2011 15:27, Mark Olliver <m...@thermeon.com> wrote:
> >>> I think my script is actually waiting on an end of file rather than
> >>> end of line terminator,
> >>>
> >>> If that makes a difference ?
> >>>
> >>> Mark
> >>>
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