[syslog-ng]Re: syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

> 	I have been trying syslog-ng and extremely happy with the power of
> using it.  I have one question, when using the program option under
> destination drivers, my PERL script gets launched when I start syslog-ng,
> but executes once and then dies.  I am using this script to page any time I
> see an log entry, but it only runs the first time it runs.

you can read log messages on your stdin, so instead of fetching a single
line and exiting keep reading your input like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<>) {
	# send to pager
}

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