On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 Swapnil Nagle wrote :
>> i am writing a program which willcopy all the lines from system log file /var/log/messages and put it in a user log file
>>i am using syslog with syscall3 but when i am using write system cal it is not able to write anything
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>fd = open(/var/log/messages)
>fd1 = open(myfile)
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>read(fd, buffer,count)
>write(fd, buffer, count)
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>Why do you need syslog, syscall3 etc. ?
sir as i thought there will be a deamon programwhich will access the logfile and extract the usefule messages into my file so as the file is being access by the kernel so i have to switch the mode in order to access it
therefore i was thinking of using syslog
the piece of code you have provided is not working as it is issueing read error while opening the4 /var/log/messages file
sounak
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>--Swapnil
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