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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
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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
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