[syslog-ng]pulling data from a file

[Matt Okeson-Harlow]

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:
> > 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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