Re: Piping output to a program

[email protected] (Paul Jarc)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
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Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote:
> Use the "!processor" option, which will feed the current logfile in
> through stdin and record stdout to the final destination log file.
> This means that you'll need to use a tee-like process to get a
> duplicate of the data,

You don't need tee.  multilog can send your log data to multiple
destinations:

#!/bin/sh
exec multilog t \
./main \
s4096 !processor ./processed

The s4096 option makes multilog rotate (and run the processor) more
often for ./processed than it does for ./main.


paul
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