"A.L.Lambert" wrote:
destination { program(/usr/bin/notify); };
This works better, but only seems to work when it starts up, but not thereafter. /usr/bin/notify is a /bin/sh script.
Does this just not work in v1.4.10?? It's getting rather frustrating.
I'm running in Red Hat Linux 6.2 without all the bells and whistles (like X). I'd *REALLY* like to get this to work - it's one of the big draws to syslog-ng for me.
I would guess that the shell script should look like this: --cut-- #!/bin/sh
while read line ; do # stuff to do, presumably pager, or email or some such. done --cut--
Syslog-ng (IIRC), will open up a pipe to the script/program in question, and feed it stuff on STDIN. I don't think it re-executes the program with each message. I may be totally wrong, your mileage may vary, etc. Cheers!
The script is this: #!/bin/sh # notify: send a page via email PAGER=${PAGER:-<mypagebyemail>} if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then /bin/mail $PAGER <<!* $(echo $@) !* else while read LINE ; do /bin/mail $PAGER done fi ...this doesn't work reliably from syslog-ng 1.4.10 ... PS: Now if I could just hit "Reply" to answer back to the list.....