[syslog-ng]Who can help a newbie?

[Nate Campi]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:40:14PM +0100, Martijn Koopsen wrote:
> 
> As a relative newbie in the world syslog-ng i tried a few things.  I
> am able to split all the information that comes into the
> logging-server into seperate files.
>
> Now i would like to change the config in a way that when a specific
> message comes in it is written to a file but at the same time triggers
> a shell script that starts running.
> 
> Who can help me with this?

Anyone who takes the time to read the docs.

syslog-ng will start a program to feed lines to, but it will only start
it once at startup and feed it matching lines on its standard input. You
need to write it in such a way that it does the right thing in this
situation.

There's an example at
<URL:http://www.campin.net/newlogcheck.html#syslog-ng> where it says "
Email certain logs". That is to simply email them. Start with the perl
or the shell example and go from there.
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Nate Campi    http://www.campin.net