On Thursday 13 January 2005 00:37, sounak chakraborty wrote: > >Just reading what is probably the first sentence would make one > > think all you want is "cp /var/log/messages myfile". Or perhaps > > you want syslogd to write everything it puts in /var/log/messages > > into another file as well. If so see syslog.conf. Trying to > > figure out what this has to do with syscall3 or with a kernel is > > making my brain hurt. > > exactly i want to scan through the log file and extract my useful > messages to myfile and this program will work as a deamon Then you certainly shouldn't need to use syscall3 or write any kernel code. Except for the daemon aspect, grep might be all you really need. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
