On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 04:59, Gavin Carr wrote: Thanks for your reply Gavin,
> > Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? > > Yep, misreading the man page. :-) A pipe can be used to send the output > to a named pipe/fifo, not direct to an executable. You then can have > a program reading from the fifo and doing whatever you want, of course. Hehe. I did actually read that man page on my system, but I had heard (or maybe seen) that this could be done directly. When I went online, I found: http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=syslog.conf Which mentions " A vertical bar ("|"), followed by a command to pipe the selected messages to. The command is passed to sh(1) for evaluation, so usual shell metacharacters or input/output redirection can occur." Is there another version of syslog also called just plain `syslog'? Mike -- __________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCX, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
