It's also documented in the syslog-ng docs :-)
(thanks Jason)
On 9/28/07, Jason Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mike Sperano wrote:
> > Hi Everyone
> >
> > I have everything up and running and all seems to work well the only
> problem, I am getting stuck on is my sql database is filling up really fast.
> What I have noticed is when syslog-ng pipes the logs over to the
> mysql.pipe file and then the syslog2mysql.sh script runs but the script
> keeps repeating all of the messages that are in the pipe file over and over
> and over so with in minutes the database is expanding with a repeat of the
> same exact message. Can anyone shed so light
> >
>
> Your problem sounds like you have created a regular file called
> "mysql.pipe". The mysql.pipe object is not a "file", it is a FIFO
> socket. FIFO means first-in, first-out. In other words, when you read
> a line from a fifo socket, that line is removed automatically from the
> device. To create this device, you don't just create a regular unix
> file (as with the "touch" command). You need to create a fifo pipe with
> the "mkfifo" command. This should be described somewhere in the
> documentation which I don't have handy at the moment.
>
> Cheers,
>
> /Jason
>
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