Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:31:39 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Piping Syslogd Output to a Program Message-ID: <200310132031.h9DKVdGf090055@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Is there a way to run syslogd such that its output can be sent to a program? It seems like it may be possible based on a passage in the man page in section 8 for syslogd. ------------------------------------------------------------ into a single line of the form ``last message repeated N times'' when the output is a pipe to another program. If specified twice, disable this compression in all cases. ------------------------------------------------------------ That is the only discussion I see in the manual and there appears to be nothing in the FreeBSD Handbook at least when I was looking up references to syslogd. The best outcome will be if one can run syslogd so that it still produces the files it does, but has this extra channel open to another program that I would write which works like a very alert operator that will do X if it sees Y happening. Thanks for any answers or references that can point us in this direction. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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