On Tuesday January 29 2008 9:11:05 pm Porkchop wrote: > On 29/01/08 17:35 -0500, Alan and Pete wrote: > > 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... > > Latency. I can't have more than (perhaps) 30 seconds latent.
If you're worried about hanging syslog if your app gets behind (if the DB is slow, say), you can probably improve things by buffering the reads out of syslog and doing the DB writes from data read from the buffer. Basic producer/consumer + queue. -- 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
