[syslog-ng] Need help with having Syslog-ng import a log file into syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 10:26 -0600, Steven Meacham wrote:
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> Need help with having Syslog-ng import a log file into Syslog-ng. I
> have a proxy server that will not syslog but will log to a file than
> can ftp of the server. I am wondering how I can take the ftped file
> and send it to the Syslog-ng so It can be sysloged to our database
> server for review? Any help would be great? Thanks.

syslog-ng 2.0.x can follow files like this, using the file source and
the follow_freq option. However it'll currently lose current position
across restarts, that still needs to be fixed. If you are interested in
testing this feature, I might move the priority of this change higher in
my head :)

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Bazsi