Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:31:03 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: syslog filter (was Re: License to kill annoying syslog feature) Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970220082640.10199B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970219221145.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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This is very cool. I wish I had this for some of the SunOS sites we're nursing too. Will this make it into 2.2? Regards, Mike Hancock On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > I am very happy with the IRIX 5.3 syslog. It supports the syntax > > > > *.debug;kern.none;user.none |/var/syslog/log-filter /var/syslog/all > > > > which pipes all messages through /var/syslog/log-filter and this script > > decides what to do with them. > > I've got something like this in the queue. I needed it for a > customer's site, and it's currently in ``burn-in'' test there. It > revealed a couple of bugs and brain-o's, as soon as i've got it > working reliably there (i think i must be close now), i'll commit it > to the tree. > > Unlike IRIX (i think), i'm feeding the argument of the ``|'' operator > into system(3), so you are fairly free what you're gonna do there. If > you don't like this, simply make it ``|exec /var/syslog/log-filter''. > > -- > cheers, J"org
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