.------[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (2002/10/08 at 09:55:09) ]------
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| All,
|
| I'm looking for suggestions on how I can accomplish running a perlscript to
| e-mail me when a certain log condition is met.
|
| My idea is that I will call the perlscript from syslog.conf:
|
|
| local2.* |exec /sbin/perlscrip.pl
|
| How do I get perl to take input from syslogd?
| How would I make sure that the script would exit if the string I am looking
| for isn't present?
|
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From the syslog.conf manpage, I read that the | isn't for executing
a script, but for sending the data to a named pipe ( fifo ). If you
create a file ( let's say /tmp/foo.pipe ) with the command mkfifo
/tmp/foo.pipe, then you can launch a perl script which opens this
file and reads/writes to it like a standard file.
Hope this helps.
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Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://frank.wiles.org
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