[syslog-ng]syslog-ng messages sent to outside prog

Nate Campi nate@campin.net
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:06:59 -0800


On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:12:58PM +0100, Gregor Binder wrote:
> Snortball on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 09:25:43AM -0500:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> > Is there any chance that I can get a copy of your mail script? I can't seem
> > to get one to work. Yes, I'm a newbie.....but I'm trying!
> 
> while read LOGLINE; do
> 
>   echo $LOGLINE | mail foo@bar.com
> 

I had found that script in the archives from a posting by Balazs.

I ended up patching sqlsyslogd, since it's easier to patch the logging
utility once than to patch syslog-ng every time I upgrade. I just need
to know about strstr(), and my problems were over ;)

If people are interested I can post it to the list.
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