[syslog-ng]destination { program(); } failures...

[A.L.Lambert]

> destination { program(/usr/bin/notify); };
> 
> This works better, but only seems to work when it starts up, but not
> thereafter.  /usr/bin/notify is a /bin/sh script.
> 
> Does this just not work in v1.4.10??  It's getting rather frustrating.
> 
> I'm running in Red Hat Linux 6.2 without all the bells and whistles
> (like X).  I'd *REALLY* like to get this to work - it's one of the big
> draws to syslog-ng for me.

	I would guess that the shell script should look like this:
--cut--
#!/bin/sh


while read line ; do
# stuff to do, presumably pager, or email or some such.
done
--cut--

	Syslog-ng (IIRC), will open up a pipe to the script/program in
question, and feed it stuff on STDIN.  I don't think it re-executes the
program with each message.  I may be totally wrong, your mileage may vary,
etc.  Cheers!

-- A.L.Lambert
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level
of thinking that created them...
	-Einstein
------------------------------------------------------------------------