On Tuesday January 29 2008 4:54:37 pm Porkchop wrote: > Here's what I'd like to do. In addition to its usual logfile, I'll have > syslog-ng write to a named fifo. I'll have a script read from the fifo, > parse, and post to mysql.
I'm not all that familiar with syslog-ng, but couldn't you just have it write to a (rotating) file which is picked up, processed & databasified by a cron job? Seems to be a pretty common way of doing such things... -- Peter Fein || 773-575-0694 || [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~pfein/ || PGP: 0xCCF6AE6B irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
