From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Apr 4 19:21:56 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C1CD2DF9A for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 19:21:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x22a.google.com (mail-it0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E2F9B82 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 19:21:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id e75so70628069itd.1 for ; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:21:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-transfer-encoding; bh=gtL/2EKlKALFuJwK6h4ooSNsJE9tGPpIY40AC6qkklQ=; b=U5jxrOkV5E6lV4Ru+sk0Fkdr1e8hxXr6k4XdIBjaqZEU5eZjzDzgWA2iPNPT5l2lbZ E5vPCz5CztJteBX8XmWSYuIe5cayg9KcDddFsu5b8Di2WIW3TWtbNM9uTRwb3R2RXHaM alk8xK02DOtgWf/91KECSmTV+PZgRS+rOONIOX1NcP4V7Jw3D9kqW2lSNrcjjl56ZKic 6NhU0CTNg73c8jQlWKXJnWNNi2w8kM17rf+VQL9AuO1kLJzHKY0T9tpJDdLSvHjh9Eir UIjb0yIloUDKdRH1YfZqEyJxO3fyqivL2k9S/jtrn6G+KZ+ir+AU3aHoZdyhNdycPU50 sSCg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gtL/2EKlKALFuJwK6h4ooSNsJE9tGPpIY40AC6qkklQ=; b=A+QvIMHBP+q7BiS3kBkfqg6K/wJ74KZAwhAbRmoBDTCoXMRUMRbmemfgXkigW+oZu7 qoVs2hBE+G9EqBb5mCfzTm9pOAP2Vv2mOY/Pe0HprzSmvxebkCh72xqWBhbDaFKMGCxA n7OljDlHfZtqOSMQj4QWXiQ3JZQhjCFBcmCI5+b/oB4jMOuLccBLR+7r89upaW0eYO7q xaYYyuUFKqLJ715JCz/Mg96lCkDSfXKSwfKfuwhV/QnBm5vQu6cEfn8LyYkzhD8DZ5wt rph/S9hZOF5eljo9ngdZUucXlq17DJp9daWW+GJVC+Ert0rC6gCA2WJHj27gP6EsNtxI x4mQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H18OhL8h7E7jvOMu1lrQBl2nCwnkRi1QeNq1irkoVJAyJjuqeqQCl/VDAoxsNnWCA== X-Received: by 10.36.87.15 with SMTP id u15mr17026346ita.58.1491333715834; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.10.3] (cpe-74-141-88-57.neo.res.rr.com. [74.141.88.57]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 189sm7602969itx.25.2017.04.04.12.21.55 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <58E3F267.6000300@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 15:22:15 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD questions Subject: syslog.conf - log records to a script Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:21:56 -0000 Hello list; In syslog.conf I have these 2 lines. local0.* /var/log/security local0.* | exec /usr/local/bin/ipf.table The security log file is being populated and working fine. Now I want to pipe the same log records to a script for processing. I'm using a very simple script to verify that the test script is being handed all the log records. My test ipf.table script looks like this, #! /bin/sh read line echo "$line" >> /var/log/ipf.table.log When I issue "service syslogd restart" I get no errors. The ipf.table.log gets populated with the first log record and them nothing happens after that even though I can see more entries being logged to /var/log/security. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks for your help.