[syslog-ng] Writing line by line

[Diluka Moratuwage]

Hi Matt,
    Thanks a lot for your reply. I got it solved using the help of Balazs.
Thanks,
Diluka.

Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:14 +0530, Diluka Moratuwage wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>     Can I configure the syslog-ng, so that, it writes only line by line. 
>> Now few lines at the same time.
>> I mean, I wanna, write one line, and then another, not as a a bunch of 
>> lines.
>>     
>
> Writing a bunch of lines shouldn't matter. Think of the time delta
> between writing a bunch of lines as being close to zero. They are still
> separate lines.
>
>   
>> What I actually need to
>> do, is reading one line, process it and do some things, and then listen 
>> to next line and so on.
>>     
>
> Write to a process that reads from stdin. As an example, we process VPN
> syslog's from our Cisco VPN concentrator:
>
>
> destination dp_process_vpn {
>         program("/usr/local/sbin/process_vpn_syslog"
>                 template("$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC $MSG\n")
>                 template_escape(no)
>         );
> };
>
> filter f_vpn {
>         # IP Address of the VPN box
>         netmask("10.1.1.1/255.255.255.255");
> };
>
> source s_remote {
>         udp();
> };
>
> # do the processing for vpn stuff
> log {
>                 source(s_remote);
>                 filter(f_vpn);
>                 destination(dp_process_vpn);
> };
>
>
> # samle source code for /usr/local/sbin/process_vpn_syslog
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
>
> while (<>) {
>   chomp;
>   # do stuff here
> }
>
>   
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