In message <e54865560906260700g1d87f860l199f8785efe5f...@mail.gmail.com>, Clayton Dukes writes: >I'm wondering if it's normal for sec to spawn multiple processes for >every incoming message? > >I'm using syslog-ng, my config: >destination d_sec { > file("/var/log/sec_debug.log" > template("$HOST\t$FACILITY\t$PRIORITY\t$LEVEL\t$TAG\t$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY\t >$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC\t$PROGRAM\t$MSG\n") > template_escape(no)); > program("/usr/bin/sec -input=\"-\" -conf=/etc/sec/cisco.conf >-log=/var/log/sec_run.log -intevents -debug=5" > template("$HOST\t$FACILITY\t$PRIORITY\t$LEVEL\t$TAG\t$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY\t >$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC\t$PROGRAM\t$MSG\n") > ); >}; > >log { > source(s_all); > destination(d_sec); >}; > > >And my test config for sec: >################################################# ># %CCM_CALLMANAGER-CALLMANAGER >type=Single >ptype=RegExp >pattern=(.*CCM_CALLMANAGER-CALLMANAGER.*) >desc=CallManager >action=pipe '$1' /www/svn/php-syslog-ng/scripts/sec_db_dedup.pl > > >The sec_db_dedup.pl script is doing database inserts and exiting. >When I run syslog-ng, I get 30-40 processes for sec_db_dedup.pl and >another 30-40 processes for sec >Is this normal behavior?
Yes. pipe is the same as shellcmd, except it sends data on stdin. What you may want is the opposite of a spawn command: i.e. a persistant process that sec can write to (spawn provides a persistant process that sec can read from). When I did this, I used (the equivalent of): shellcmd 'tail -F /tmp/file | command' that fired when sec started up (see -intevents in the man page). This initial shellcmd is responsible for making sure that 'command' exists/restarts if it crashes etc... Once you have that set up, send data to it using: write /tmp/file ..... in place of the pipe command. This sets up a persistant 'command' process and sends data via a file. Using a pipe is another possibility. Using -F on the tail allows rotation of the file to happen without restarting the tail/command. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard =========================================================================== My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Simple-evcorr-users mailing list Simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/simple-evcorr-users