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You don't use syslog-ng in this way. For what you want to do you should
make your application output the information you want to the standard
syslog and use syslog-ng as your logger. Then use filters to extract
the messages you want the launch an external program to email them off
to you or something. That is what I did. A few lines of code, some
regex filtering with syslog-ng definitions is all it takes.<br>
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Now you have all the pointers, you can read the docs on filtering,
program(), etc. <br>
Although it sounds like you don't have a good grasp of the whole
logging thing yet so my advice is to read all the syslog-ng docs and
faq. They are worth the read.<br>
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-h<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon
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Tiger Peng wrote:
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<div> I have two questions about how to use the syslog-ng to
monitor just couple of processes.</div>
<div> In my case, I try to use some kind of utility to just
monitor 4 to 8 different processes, some of them are system resource,
but some of them are new developed processes. Here are my questions.</div>
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<div>1. can I start a seperate syslog-ng, I mean if I can keep
syslogd running, but start another syslog-ng process to dedicate the
service for my special purpose.</div>
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<div>2. I guess syslog-ng has some kind of filter which can filter
the information, but how can I expand it ability to receive some
specific information or more field, such as message ID. Is this
configurable, or I must modify the source to support it.</div>
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<div> Thanks.</div>
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<div> David</div>
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