[syslog-ng]Program destination ?
David Vaartjes
syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:15:51 +0200
Hello list,
I'm testing syslog-ng to send certain messages to the stdin of a
program. I've set the following lines in "syslog-ng.conf" to
accomplish this:
<CONFIG-LINES>
destination alerter { program("/home/dv/download/perl-test.pl"); };
filter f_special {
match("special");
};
log { source(src); filter(f_special); destination(alerter); };
</CONFIG-LINES>
The perl-test.pl looks like:
<PERL-TEST.PL>
#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<>)
{
print $_ . "\n";
}
</PERL-TEST.PL>
If I do a 'logger -p daemon.notice "special"' the message is not
send to the stdin of perl-test.pl. However, if i do a 'echo "test"
> /proc/3240/fd/0" the data is send to the stdin of perl-test.pl
and shown on the console by perl-test.pl as expected.
I can't figure out why syslog isn't sending messages to
perl-test.pl. If i change the "destination" in syslog-ng.conf to
write to a file, everything works fine.
Hope someone can shed some light on this one.
Thanks in advance,
David