Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:26:35 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon writes: > >> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: > >> > standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: >> > standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common >> > denominator that comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-03-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards > > compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that > > comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost always useless for real work. >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards > compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that comprises > Unix. Which is to say, almost always useless for real work. A little turn towards OT: so what are using your opensolari

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 27 February 2010 20:40:17 Harry Putnam wrote: > In the back of my mind there was a reason on opensolaris, that the > script would fail if the fifo was empty... Then once data comes the > script isn't listening. Or syslog won't write or something similar. > > I also have an opensolaris

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-27 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:40:17 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: > > reload() { > > ebegin "Reloading evolone_agi configuration" > > start-stop-daemon --signal 1 > > --pidfile /var/run/evolone_agi.pid eend $? "Error reloading > > evolone_agi" } > Thanks ... good info. How does the script b

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Friday 26 February 2010 23:44:03 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Where I'm weak is the part where the custom script checks if the >> daemon is running, before the script itself starts. That part would >> need to be something pretty fool proof... maybe just grep ps output >> for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:00:43 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Where I'm weak is the part where the custom script checks if the > > daemon is running, before the script itself starts. That part would > > need to be something pretty fool proof... maybe just grep ps output > > for the daemon? I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 26 February 2010 23:44:03 Harry Putnam wrote: > Where I'm weak is the part where the custom script checks if the > daemon is running, before the script itself starts. That part would > need to be something pretty fool proof... maybe just grep ps output > for the daemon? Maybe I'm misund

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: >> Then tap into the fifo with a perl script that is written to be able >> to sort and write the syslog output according to various regex that >> may be part of startup cmd or fed in later during the running script. > > I don't know rsyslog at all (I use syslog-ng), but cert