Would you be able to provide an example of how one could use this to send mail? John Delisle Corporate Technology Ceridian Canada Ltd 204-975-5909 "amover@libero.it"<amo ver To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Sent by: cc: syslog-ng-admin@lists. Subject: [syslog-ng]program() destination balabit.hu 2001/03/08 02:18 AM Please respond to syslog-ng (I'm sending it again cause I'm not sure the first send was successful so sorry if it's a duplicate) About launching a program, specifically a perl script to do other jobs when some filters are matched the right code snippet is : #!/usr/bin/perl $fh = select (FOO); $| = 1; select ($fh); open FOO, ">>/foo.log" or die $!; while ( <STDIN> ) { print FOO $_; } close FOO; you need the first to line to disable buffering...(that's why you cannot say any lines in the file) Hope this could help the syslog-ng people :) Amodiovalerio Verde Computer freak and consultant amover@libero.it _______________________________________________ syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng