Re: Unexepected results when piping syslog to a fifo

2012-11-30 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:21:30 -0600 > From: Paul Schmehl > Subject: Re: Unexepected results when piping syslog to a fifo > > Now I'm even more confused. According to man (5) syslog.conf, a pipe > should redirect its output to /dev/null. > > " A v

Re: Unexepected results when piping syslog to a fifo

2012-11-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On November 29, 2012 1:30:25 PM -0600 Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm working on a project which requires that I pipe a remote syslog to a fifo so a daemon can parse the results. After some googling I *thought* that I had figured out how to configure syslog to do this. Here's the syslog.conf entry

Re: Unexepected results when piping syslog to a fifo

2012-11-29 Thread Noel
On 11/29/2012 1:30 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm working on a project which requires that I pipe a remote > syslog to a fifo so a daemon can parse the results. After some > googling I *thought* that I had figured out how to configure > syslog to do this. Here's the syslog.conf entry: > > + hostna

Unexepected results when piping syslog to a fifo

2012-11-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm working on a project which requires that I pipe a remote syslog to a fifo so a daemon can parse the results. After some googling I *thought* that I had figured out how to configure syslog to do this. Here's the syslog.conf entry: + hostname.utdallas.edu *.* | cat > /var/run/program/progr