Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:11:45 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: License to kill annoying syslog feature? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970219221145.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702191421.PAA07927@server.us.tld>; from Andre Albsmeier on Feb 19, 1997 15:21:38 %2B0100 References: <199702190339.OAA09285@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199702191421.PAA07927@server.us.tld>
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As Andre Albsmeier wrote: > I am very happy with the IRIX 5.3 syslog. It supports the syntax > > *.debug;kern.none;user.none |/var/syslog/log-filter /var/syslog/all > > which pipes all messages through /var/syslog/log-filter and this script > decides what to do with them. I've got something like this in the queue. I needed it for a customer's site, and it's currently in ``burn-in'' test there. It revealed a couple of bugs and brain-o's, as soon as i've got it working reliably there (i think i must be close now), i'll commit it to the tree. Unlike IRIX (i think), i'm feeding the argument of the ``|'' operator into system(3), so you are fairly free what you're gonna do there. If you don't like this, simply make it ``|exec /var/syslog/log-filter''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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