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Date:      Thu, 1 Apr 1999 03:37:24 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Adrian Pavlykevych <pam@polynet.lviv.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Q]: Piping from syslogd to program
Message-ID:  <19990401033724.B11572@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9904011208120.60872-100000@NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua>; from Adrian Pavlykevych on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:33:08PM %2B0300
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9904011208120.60872-100000@NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua>

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On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:33:08PM +0300, a little birdie told me
that Adrian Pavlykevych remarked
> Hello everybody!
> 
> Are there any special tricks to be done to have program which is run by
> syslogd  and piping logs through it?

I don't think I have anything to touch on this precise problem, but...


> program is perl script in the form of:
> 
> open(LOG, "/dev/stdin")
> while(<LOG>) {

Why?
What's wrong with just
while(<STDIN>) {



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