[syslog-ng]Using logger with syslog-ng

[Ed Ravin]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:35:41PM -0800, Vaibhav Goel wrote:
> Thanks for your prompt reply.  It is as I suspected....I won't be able
> to use logger to test.  
> 
> I am running RedHat Linux.  Please note that syslogd and syslog-ng need
> to co-exist on the source as well as the loghost.  I see in the FAQ that
> this is possible.  Should I get syslog-ng to listen on the UDP port 514
> meant for syslogd?  Is there any quick way I can test this setup?  

If you tell syslog-ng to listen to the UDP port, then you can write a
Perl script using the Sys::Syslog module (which comes with Perl 5 and
later) to do your testing.  If you already know some Perl, that
should be pretty quick.