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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: syslogd Date: 2 Feb 1997 17:11:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5d2hrf$1qr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5ck5ds$s2b$2@news.ziplink.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34960 mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: > I would like syslogd to pipe some of the message to a program-filter. > On Irix (5.3, at least) this is possible by including > `|/full/path/to/the/program' as the second column of /etc/syslog.cong > > Is it possible to (without named pipe -- I do not want the filter to > seat there forewer waiting) do on FreeBSD, Not yet. > and if not, is not this a > usefull feature? It is. I required it for a customer, and implemented it. (That's the kind of FreeBSD work my employer doesn't mind to pay. :) It's currently in its final real-life test stage, expect a commit for it anytime soon. By now, i've only seen it on Irix, btw. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)