? You don't use syslog-ng in this way. For what you want to do you should make your application output the information you want to the standard syslog and use syslog-ng as your logger. Then use filters to extract the messages you want the launch an external program to email them off to you or something. That is what I did. A few lines of code, some regex filtering with syslog-ng definitions is all it takes. Now you have all the pointers, you can read the docs on filtering, program(), etc. Although it sounds like you don't have a good grasp of the whole logging thing yet so my advice is to read all the syslog-ng docs and faq. They are worth the read. -h Hari Sekhon Tiger Peng wrote:

I have two questions about how to use the syslog-ng to monitor just couple of processes. In my case, I try to use some kind of utility to just monitor 4 to 8 different processes, some of them are system resource, but some of them are new developed processes. Here are my questions.

1. can I start a seperate syslog-ng, I mean if I can keep syslogd running, but start another syslog-ng process to dedicate the service for my special purpose.

2. I guess syslog-ng has some kind of filter which can filter the information, but how can I expand it ability to receive some specific information or more field, such as message ID. Is this configurable, or I must modify the source to support it.

Thanks.

David

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