On Thu 14 March 2002 22:39, you (John Summerfield) wrote: > [..] > If you want to process all (or some) messages, one easy way is to > mkfifo /var/log/programslog > > Configure syslogd to write to the FIFO - see the contents of > /etc/syslog.conf > Restart syslogd; > service syslog restart > > then open and read the FIFO with your program. > > You might add a script to /etc/init.d and chkconfig it so as to make > your program start on boot like so many others do. The startup script > might evem make the FIFO - if so then it must run before syslog's does; > otherwise syslog with create a file. Remember that FIFOs block until opened on both ends. Would it not cause problems in this case? -- Tego nie znajdziesz w żadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ]
