On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:40:14PM +0100, Martijn Koopsen wrote:

As a relative newbie in the world syslog-ng i tried a few things. I am able to split all the information that comes into the logging-server into seperate files.

Now i would like to change the config in a way that when a specific message comes in it is written to a file but at the same time triggers a shell script that starts running.

Who can help me with this?

Anyone who takes the time to read the docs. syslog-ng will start a program to feed lines to, but it will only start it once at startup and feed it matching lines on its standard input. You need to write it in such a way that it does the right thing in this situation. There's an example at <URL:http://www.campin.net/newlogcheck.html#syslog-ng> where it says " Email certain logs". That is to simply email them. Start with the perl or the shell example and go from there. -- Nate Campi http://www.campin.net