[syslog-ng]program trouble

[Wendell Turner]

> I have a problem with the program destination when having the
> following in my syslog-ng.conf file
>
> destination dhcp { program("script-program"); };
>
> it will run the script-program once when reloading syslog-ng
> not when matching the filter.

I've been using a C program rather than a script.  It seems that
syslog-ng loads the program once, and sends input to it whenever
the filter matches.  That is, the C program must

  while ((r = read(0, buffer, Buf_Len)) > 0)
  {
    process input
  }

I suppose your script would need to do the same thing.

Wendell Turner