Re: Something silly I'm not seeing.. flt script is written to.

2009-10-18 Thread Bob goolsby
No problem -- This is classic example of "Explain To To the Dog" (or teddy-bear or octopus or (insert stuffed toy or pet here)). You bat your head against your problem for a couple of hours and get nowhere. When I try to explain what I am doing to the Dog, he looks skeptical, so I have to explai

Re: Something silly I'm not seeing.. flt script is written to.

2009-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > > But the data is actually being written into the script. Egad... that > seems pretty crazy. When I start the script with `./flt' it does not > write to any files... or to stdout, instead the data is coming through > the named-pipe and being written into the script file.

Something silly I'm not seeing.. flt script is written to.

2009-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I wrote a quick filter for system-log output but must have done something really dumb because syslog is writing to the script (through a named-pipe). This is on opensolaris... The system logger syslog.conf file doesn't allow the use of a pipe symbol like can be done on linux OS's, for sending sysl