2007/8/3, Darwin, Samuel <darwins@thirteen.org >:

Hi,

Is there a good way to have syslog-ng email me when particular log
events occur?

I am running a very standard, default installation of CentOS 5.

Example:

I tried this sort of methodology, but it didn't work:

source net { udp(); };
destination emailer { program("mail myaddress@yahoo.com"); };
log { source(net); destination(emailer); };

In this case, I'd expect to be emailed a copy of every single message
received over udp.   However, what happens is that the program "mail
myaddress@yahoo.com" gets run and appears in the process table, but no
emails are sent.  The syslog log file shows dropped='program(mail
myaddress@yahoo.com)=0' , indicating something is being "dropped".

I think that I must be going about this the wrong way.    Maybe I can't
use syslog-ng to send emails?

Thanks,
Sam Darwin
Thirteen.org

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