Does that just create the file, which is then used as the destination? Is that how it works? Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14
-----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng- bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of HÖLTZL Péter Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:35 AM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: RE: [syslog-ng] Creating a named pipe (FIFO)
Hi Timothy,
Insted of putting mkfifo into the syslog-ng.conf, add the command 'mkfifo /var/syslog-ng/syslog_fifo' from a command prompt when you are root.
regards,
Péter
Does the name of the named pipe need to be the same as the destination line mkfifo splunk;
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