Re: Syslog, ipchains and printk

Glynn Clements (glynn@sensei.co.uk)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:47:46 +0200 (GMT--1:00)


Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen wrote:

> > Send kern.info messages to a FIFO, and attach the other end to a
> > program which sorts them into appropriate files.
>
> Two things. It should not be sorted in to files but sent as local?.* to
> a loghost using syslog.

Then have the filter program use 'logger' to re-log the messages.

> And what happens if the program listening on the
> other end of the fifo dies?

Ensure that it gets re-started.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>

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