[syslog-ng]Sending mail to root?

[nate]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:20:43AM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 19. August 2003 00:02 schrieb Amodiovalerio Verde:
> >
> > I use some C program I've written to read stdin using a fgets() that return
> > after # bytes or after an EOL.
> 
> Could you send this program to me? Wouldn't it be better to return after a 
> linebreak?

No need for custom C programs:

 http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html#external_program

or for shell use this:

 #!/bin/sh
 while read line; do
     echo $line | /usr/bin/mail -s "log alert" pager@example.dom
 done

-- 
Nate

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