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From: Eric I.Arnoth <earnoth@comcast.net>
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To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: syslog.conf problems
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:36:02 -0500
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On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:16, you wrote:
>
> You'll kick yourself. Is /hello_log.sh set executable?

Ugghh....no, it wasn't.  <sigh>  

Now that I chmod'd it properly, the bourne scipt runs just fine.  I then 
tried to make it echo the line to my python script, thusly:
--------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
read line
echo "$line" | /hello_log.py
--------------------------------------------------------
It works just fine.  Thus explaining to me the man page's comments about 
shell script wrapper to set up the run-once-and-die mechanism.

So now that I have the proof of concept, I can do whatever I want in Python, 
such as parse the output and send it to Postgresql.  

Thanks much for the simple assist, though I am quite embarassed that it was 
such a simple detail.  I still don't understand why the Python script on it   
won't run properly.  (It is 755 perm  ;-)

hello_log.py
--------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/python
import sys

test_file = open("/test.out", 'a')
test_file.write(sys.__stdin__.read())
test_file.flush()
test_file.close()
sys.exit()
--------------------------------------------------------

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