On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:17:26PM +0100, Fred Leeflang wrote: > Hi, > > For vuurmuur I would like to write an ulogd extension that writes out > a log somewhat comparable to syslog. Currently vuurmuur parses syslog > line generated with the LOG target, we are considering changing this > to having ulogd do this for us through the ULOG target and said > extension. What's the best way to go about doing this to keep the > extension maintainable? > Hi Fred, Have you looked at the SYSLOG or LOGEMU output plugins ? Writing a similar plugin should be fairly easy. Writing external plugins is not supported. It's very easy, yet Pablo prefers [1] to keep things in mainline when possible, which is of course a good thing [2]. Pierre [1] http://marc.info/?t=123996560400005&r=1&w=2 [2] external plugins would require us to create, document, and maintain a stable API, for ex. Not that it can't be done, but I'm not sure it was part of the original plans :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
