this is all well and good, a fifo works just fine, only problem is that cnr rolls the log files over itself... any ideas on how to get a tail -f to reset and start reading the new file? On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:05:47PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:49:32AM -0500, Matt Okeson-Harlow wrote:

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i have a question about syslog-ng and it's ability to pull from a non syslog file,

i have a cisco network registrar dhcp server that is looking to /var/nwreg2/logs/name_dhcp_1_log (standard location) on Solaris 2.7

however when i have a source of source cnr { file("/var/nwreg2/logs/name_dhcp_1_log"); }; nothing gets logged, i did some reading it seems people have tried using logger to get to these kind of log files (tail -f | logger) however either i am missing something or it does not work here, anyone have any ideas? btw, syslog-ng when it starts up gives a EOF error which i am assuming is because it is expecting the file to never end.

any ideas that anyone has would be appreciated

currently pulling data from a regular file is not supported. file() sources are used with special files like /proc/kmsg. The problem with regular files is that they always indicate readability, even if new data is not written to them.

You could either use a tail -f | logger combination, or tail -f > namedpipe, where namedpipe is listed as a pipe source in syslog-ng.conf.

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:32:39PM -0500, Matt Okeson-Harlow wrote:

this is all well and good, a fifo works just fine, only problem is that cnr rolls the log files over itself... any ideas on how to get a tail -f to reset and start reading the new file?

tail won't. You would normally restart tail. You could just put the needed commands in your log rolling script. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __o Bradley Arlt Email: arlt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca o__ _ \<_ WWW: www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~bdarlt _>/ _ (_)/(_) -Eat well, sleep peacefully, drink lots, and ride like hell. (_)\(_)