[syslog-ng] Example 3.4. Script to feed a growing logfile into syslog-ng

[Carlos Carvalho]

Chris Pratt (pratt70 at gmail.com) wrote on 24 July 2008 16:10:
 >Thanks for your suggestion.  This is for Tomcat.  Unfortunately I am
 >stuck reading from the log because the syslog appender in the log4j
 >version on our app does not capture stack traces while the file
 >appenders do.  In other cases we want to capture garbage collections
 >which are only written to stdout.

Couldn't you redirect stdout >> fifo?

 >I tried sending my file appends to
 >/dev/log but that didn't work

Yes, doesn't work. I think I tried it myself once... Use the fifo and
the pipe source.

 >Only my central log server runs syslog-ng.

Ah, the real reason finally :-) :-)