McKown, John wrote:
Which syslog daemon are you running (sorry, no z/Linux here). Old-style syslog,
syslog-ng, or rsyslogd? They are different in their capabilities.
One thing which should work on all of them is to make your own daemon which
monitors the appropriate syslog file in the filesystem (you must tell the
syslog to write to this file). You could do this something like:
tail -f /var/log/log-file-with-messages | myprocessing-program
Probably, configuring syslogd to write to a pipe is easier. Start the
pipe reader first.
Apart from things others have mentioned, pop-before-smtp is a perl
script that reads log files in real time and does things when a regex
matches. It copes with logs being rotated.
As its name suggests, it's mail-related, but one could hack it to death
and reincarnation.
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Cheers
John
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