Re: syslogd and pipe to email

2005-05-31 Thread Danny Howard
Jim Pazarena wrote: I would rather have a script which waits at least 30 seconds before terminating rather than after one line, because some of the records I am looking for are multi-line, and I'm not sure if a script can be made to timeout. Jim, Even without setting up some sort of fancy in

syslogd and pipe to email

2005-05-29 Thread Jim Pazarena
I would like to email some kernel.warning messages to myself via the pipe action in syslog.conf, but I'm getting hung up on the fact that the pipe stays open (unless I HUP syslogd). The man page suggests that a script wrapper can be written to capture one line output and exit, but I wonder if the