Ithas been addressed earlier. What you need to do is write a 'wrapper' script that reads from stdin and appends its own EOF. That way you will get the Ctrl-D that syslog doesn't give you. : -----Original Message----- : From: Don Armstrong [mailto:don@donarmstrong.com] : Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 5:02 PM : To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu : Subject: [syslog-ng] Program Directive (EOF?) : : : Is there any way that we could add a feature to the program directive : to have it send an EOF after a specified number of messages? Or : something similar? : : I'm trying to set up qpage to page me when certain messages are : logged, but because there is no EOF sent (I think that's correct) the : qpage just sits there waiting for the message to end. [Same thing : with sendmail]. : : I guess I could just bite the bullet an write an go-between parser to : do it, but it seems that this sort of functionality would be good for : syslog-ng to have. : : Don Armstrong : : [I apologize if this has been addressed earlier... non-searchable : archives are difficult to glean answers from ;-)] : : -------------------------------------------------------------- : Don Armstrong | ".naidnE elttiL etaH I" : UC Riverside | : don@donarmstrong.com | http://www.donarmstrong.com : -------------------------------------------------------------- : do "finger -l don@pellam.ucr.edu" for pgp key : Unsigned, Unencrypted e-mails will not be trusted. : Get PGP: http://www.pgp.com : -------------------------------------------------------------- : : : _______________________________________________ : syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu : http://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng :