Re: Syslog compatible output from socklog

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:40:31PM +0000, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> > If someone has a better solution, I'd love to hear it.
> 
> For example, the problem with this solution (filtering the output to be
> syslog compatible) is that it exposes a limitation in the socklog/svlogd
> combination -- the "meta information" about a log message (the facility and
> priority) is only available inline, so if you want to filter log messages
> by facility, you can't strip this information out of the text.

You could run your perl script as svlogd processor, this will affect the
@4000* log files, but not the current log file.  The facility and
priority names then still can be used for pattern matching.  E.g.:

 echo '!/bin/sock2sys' >>/var/log/socklog/main/config
 runsvctrl hup /var/service/socklog-unix/log

Another glitch in your proposed solution is the | in log/run, which
should be avoided, see
 http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/faq/create.html#runlog

Regards, Gerrit.