[syslog-ng] convert logoutput to syslog

[Nate Campi]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:15:42PM -0600, Mark F wrote:
> We use a commercial content management system that does not log to 
> syslog but has its own log files.  I can however modify where the log 
> files are written via a config file directive. I'm interested in writing 
> (or acquiring) a small program to convert the proprietary log output to 
> something more syslog-ng like and redirect the stream to syslog-ng.
> 
> I could probably use the logger command to accomplish the latter but how 
> to convert the log output to use syslog facilities is the real question.
> 
> Any advice, has anyone done something like this before?

This is a common problem, and when you don't have access to the source
code (as in your case) you need to convert using something like the
logger command. This normally isn't a big deal, just run a cronjob every
few minutes that feeds new entries into logger:

 /usr/local/bin/logtail /path/to/logfile | /usr/bin/logger -p local1.notice

Get logtail from the logcheck package - available at
http://logcheck.org/.
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Nate

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