On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:15:42PM -0600, Mark F wrote:

We use a commercial content management system that does not log to syslog but has its own log files. I can however modify where the log files are written via a config file directive. I'm interested in writing (or acquiring) a small program to convert the proprietary log output to something more syslog-ng like and redirect the stream to syslog-ng.

I could probably use the logger command to accomplish the latter but how to convert the log output to use syslog facilities is the real question.

Any advice, has anyone done something like this before?

This is a common problem, and when you don't have access to the source code (as in your case) you need to convert using something like the logger command. This normally isn't a big deal, just run a cronjob every few minutes that feeds new entries into logger: /usr/local/bin/logtail /path/to/logfile | /usr/bin/logger -p local1.notice Get logtail from the logcheck package - available at http://logcheck.org/. -- Nate "Everybody thinks I'm Fruit Loops Because I post on newsgroups Instead of doing work. If I don't finish my degree Then I probably will be an overeducated clerk." - Brown, Thomas Ford