RE: Better Syslog server

One thing to note with the provided syslog server is that you can direct messages to a
local script. This allows easy parsing of the selected messages (all if desired)
without replacing syslog. Nice if you are afraid of patches etc.

Steps are:

create a named pipe:
# mknod /etc/syslog_pipe p

run the following script (or one like it) on the pipe:
#!/bin/sh
while :
do
        while read message
        do
                echo message is $message
        done < /etc/syslog_pipe
        echo syslog restarted
done


and add the appropriate lines to /etc/syslog.conf:

*.debug                                         /etc/syslog_pipe