Thanks for the heads up on rsyslog. I've been using it for ages, yet I didn't know you could trigger commands directly from there. I see it has omprog, as well as :msg, regex, "hellothere" ^/usr/local/bin/hi.bash good to know. I'll see which path I take. I already have the spec file working for Fedora. cheers, m On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/15/2017 11:31 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> Probably most Fedora users will use a general purpose tool like rsyslog >>> (already in Fedora) or fluentd/logstash to read events from journald and >>> do >>> custom triggers. >> >> thanks for the info! It seems to me that journal-triggerd fits a >> different use case from the tools mentioned so far, so I'll keep >> chipping at it :-) >> >> journal-triggerd is a tiny utility written in C, meant for >> local/standalone use, more general purpose than fail2ban (which I >> use), but otherwise in a similar "simple to install, small footprint, >> for single node" space. > > > I guess if you want a very small tool written for a very specific purpose, > then that fits the bill. > > If you don't mind using rsyslog, it will do what you want, and much more, > and it's already in Fedora. > >> >> I've used logstash/kibana (fluentd seems similar), and those are log >> aggregators, with a much more involved setup, geared for big traffic. >> >> cheers, >> >> >> >> martin > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx - ask interesting questions ~ http://linkedin.com/in/martinlanghoff - don't be distracted ~ http://github.com/martin-langhoff by shiny stuff _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
