On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Chris J. Magnuson wrote:
> >Chris J. Magnuson wrote:
> >>
> >> scan /var/log/messages
> >
> >Thank you. Do you have more information, how to scan a large
> >/var/log/messages (up to 50 MBytes) every minute? Or is there a way
> >via syslog to react on specific messages?
> >
>
> I'm in the same place as you right now, trying to figure out how to scan
> the log for GDT HA messages periodically. SNMP traps would be so much
> nicer....
If you want to scan syslog msgs in _realtime_, just write your own syslog
server (it's a really simple protocol), and send the syslog output to it
with an @hostname entry in your syslog config.
Then you can do your own SNMP traps, etc...
-Andy
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