From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 22:12:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4594D37B416 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1L6CZ222967; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:12:35 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:12:35 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Eric I.Arnoth" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf problems Message-ID: <20020221191235.C22670@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020221030958.QQRM18863.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message