> Sure, that's what most of us do for a subset of the syslog traffic. > But the point I raised is that the driver of /dev/console does not > write "lines" as such but a stream of bytes.
Unfortunately true. Syslog-ng is a little better behaved about that, but not much. > Let's share the > war stories of screen scraping 3270 data streams with HLLAPI and > friends. Ugh. I'd rather not. The therapy was expensive. -- db