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Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm Scott Harney wrote: > -ray wrote: >> I've used the logger command to log to syslog on the localhost. Could you >> pipe the tailed file over ssh to a logger command on the syslog host? >> Just an idea :) >> > I have a perl script that a coworker wrote that does a pretty good job > of handling a logrotate, you'd just have to add the system callout to > "logger" > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > > $USER = $ENV{'USER'}; > $LogToWatch = "/path/to/log"; > > FORK: { > if ( $PID = fork) { > # PARENT HERE > # Child process pid available in $PID > > $COUNT = 0; > $SIZE_ORIG = (stat("$LogToWatch"))[7]; > while (true) { > $SIZE = (stat("$LogToWatch"))[7]; > ############### printf "SIZE: %s\n", $SIZE; > if ($SIZE >= $SIZE_ORIG) { > sleep 5; > } else { > `kill $PID`; > open(LOG,">> /path/to/othertemporary.log"); > chomp($DATE = `date`); > printf LOG "$PID KILLED FOR > $USER $DATE\n"; > close(LOG); > redo FORK; > } > } > } elsif ( defined $PID ) { > # $PID is zero here if defined > # Child here > # parent process pid is available with getppid > printf "HERE WE ARE RESTARTING THE 'TAIL'>>> \n"; > open(TAIL, "tail -100f $LogToWatch |") || die "Can't do > tail here. $!\n"; > while(<TAIL>) { > print; > #system ("logger -p daemon.info $_"); # might > work. untested. > } > exit; > } elsif ( $! =~ /No more process/ ) { > # EAGAIN, supposedly recoverable fork error > sleep 5; > redo FORK; > } else { > # weird fork error > die "Can't do fork: $!\n"; > } > } > >> ray >> >> >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> >> >>> Is anyone aware of an existing tool that can tail a log file and direct >>> the contents to a syslog host? If the tool can detect a log rotate that >>> would be even better. >>> >>> Any ideas are welcome, thanks! >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
