Here is what I did when I needed to have a STANDARD HP-UX syslog daemon running on a syslog relay, but wanted the features of syslog-ng. I started syslog-ng on the standard syslog port and do what I wanted it to do, EXCEPT write to the local files that the standard HP syslog daemon would normally do. I had syslog-ng forward all syslog messages to a high port for syslog and started the standard syslog on that high port using the standard syslog.conf. Now I can use syslog-ng and syslog-ng.conf, but I ignore all the usual destination files on the local host, those I leave to syslog.conf and OLD syslog. But for filtering and forwarding and forwarding and such I let syslog-ng handle it. On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 02:00, Salim A. Pathan wrote:

hi all,

is it possible to use "/var/log/messages" file as a source driver to syslog-ng program?????? if yes then how???? can anyone tell me how to use "file("filename" [options])" ???????i got some idea from balabit.hu but not enough to start working with it.

thanx in advance salim.

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