[syslog-ng]Syslog.conf translator

[Keith Morse]

This is a follow on to Jonathan Marks  awk script published 1 May 2001.

I've just started down the path to enlightenment (or getting up
to speed on syslog-ng) with respect to implementing on solaris.  A couple
of notes in relation to your awk script.

1.	I believe the error you are getting is due to the fact you were
	probably using the original awk variant.  "close()" is only
	applicable for nawk and gawk.  Which make sense as Balazs
	Scheidler had luck with this on Linux, which if I remember 
	correctly awk is a link to gawk.

2.	Conversely I couldn't get the script to work with the file as 
	an arguement but only if I fed it to the script.  Go figure?

Thanks for taking the time to write this script. I think it will help in
providing me a starting place to figure this critter out.





>On 4 May 2001, Jon Marks j-marks@uiuc.edu spake thusly:
>
>Hi,
>
>I've tried out the copy of the awk script syslog2ng incorporated into
>the development branch contrib directory-- but it won't run. It's a
>parse error that only seems to crop up when awk is fed this program on
>its stdin, but not as a command line argument. I'm still not sure why
>it doesn't work-- what about its parsing would change using -f? Any
>seasoned awk programmers out there want to help out? I'm grateful for
>any advice! It's always the same syntactic construct that causes the
>error:

>BEGIN {
>        # Handle the various platforms- determine proper log device
>        "/bin/uname -s" | getline sysname;      # <-- ERROR HERE!!
>        close("/bin/uname -s");