[syslog-ng] comm method with clients

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 23:45 +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  From what i read in the reference manual, there is a fixed number
> of available source drivers (internal, file, tcp, etc) in
> syslog-ng. I would like to develope a new kind of driver
> (communication method) to collect messages from clients. Is
> syslog-ng customizable enough to accomplish something like that
> relatively easy? :)
> 
> I am a newbie in this mailing list so please forgive me if my
> question sounds too naive.

It is possible, but you need to change the actual sources of syslog-ng,
as there's no plugin mechanism.

The internals of syslog-ng is quite moduralized, but modules cannot be
loaded at runtime.

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Bazsi