Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:12:35 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "Eric I.Arnoth" <earnoth@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf problems Message-ID: <20020221191235.C22670@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020221030958.QQRM18863.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>; from earnoth@comcast.net on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:07:17PM -0500 References: <20020221030958.QQRM18863.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:07:17PM -0500, Eric I.Arnoth wrote:
> If anyone replies to my message, please be sure to keep my email on the CC or
> TO fields, I do not subscribe to this list.
>
> I've been trying to get a script which will take the output from syslog and
> handle it, but I can't get past the hello world stage. I've tried a bourne
> shell script and a python script (which is the language I want to write the
> end-result in). With the bourne shell script, I get countless error messages
> like the following, with decrementing subprocess IDs:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Feb 20 21:39:10 systemname syslogd: Logging subprocess 1894 (exec
> /hello_log.sh) exited with status 126.
> Feb 20 21:39:10 systemname syslogd: exec /hello_log.sh: Broken pipe
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Here's the bournshell script hello_log.sh:
> -----------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> read line
> echo "$line" >> /test.out
> -----------------------------------------------------
syslogd runs as a daemon, and has no terminal associated with it.
When it runs your "read line" will fail, hence the broken pipe
message.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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