<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alexander Clouter</b> <<a href="mailto:ac56@soas.ac.uk">ac56@soas.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">If you are logging to a file and having Perl munch on a log file you can<br>remove the perl script and pipe from the whole works. syslog-ng can be
<br>configured to read in directly a log file; it effectively does a 'tail -f' on<br>the file.</blockquote>
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<div>Except for cases where you need the Perl script to post-process the log file to produce a normalized or custom syslog message format. </div><br> </div>