>Will keep reading so any ouput from system logger is displayed... but
>a regular kind of command like:
>
> cat named-pipe
>
>cat will close after the first line is read.
Not my experience; "cat" works.
>Similar for something like awk '/REGEX/{print}' named-pipe > some.log
>
>awk will close after the first line of input.
>
>I guess I need to write a script that behaves like `tail -f' and I'm
>sure I can in perl, but is that really necessary?
>Isn't there some way to get a standard filtering script to get all
>lines the system logger puts out, without trickery inside the script
>to keep it from closing after the first line.
>
>I guess the linux way of using a pipe `|' in the actual syslog.conf is
>one way to get it done... but that does not work on opensol.
Well, you have the source (though I understand that your code skill
are light)
Casper
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