[syslog-ng] importing old syslog-ng messages

[Daniel L. Spells Sr.]

Mike,

Thanks.  If you wouldn't mind sending a config example it would be much
appreciated.

Daniel

On Wed, November 5, 2008 14:51, Mike wrote:
> Heya,
>
>
> when ever I have to replay old logs back into syslog-ng, I create a FIFO
> on the file system, and make syslog-ng listen to that pipe.
>
> you can then cat which ever old files you have into that pipe, and
> syslog-ng will handle them like they are new.
>
> just make sure that you have syslog-ng configured to use that pipe
> source() when sending it to your database.
>
> I can provide config example of what I just said if you want.
>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Daniel L. Spells Sr. wrote:
>
>
>> Sirs,
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to import /var/log/messages, created by syslog-ng, into
>> syslog-ng to be placed into a database?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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