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Operating Systems AIX /etc/syslog.conf file and warnings Post 302210044 by jeffpas on Monday 30th of June 2008 12:21:22 AM
Old 06-30-2008
/etc/syslog.conf file and warnings

Hi All,

I am working on a server which has an /etc/syslog.conf file with the following entries (example):

local6.debug /dplogs/uss1udp001.log rotate size 1500m time 1d files 14
local7.debug /dplogs/uss1udp002.log rotate size 1500m time 1d files 14

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Basically this config file is taking system messages from Tivoli, which are at the 'debug' level, and sending them to logfiles in the /dplogs directory.
It rotates 14 of them based on 1 day or 1500m size.

This is all well and good. However, what I need to do is execute a UNIX script every time an entry gets dropped into one of these files.

Does anyone know a way that you can use /etc/syslog.conf to, instead of dropping the message into a directory, execute a file instead?

The entry would be something like (in this example)

local6.debug /dplogs/runit # every time a debug entry, kick off script, no matter when


Possible? Anyone done something like this before. Thanks much for any advice.

jeffpas
 

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SYSLOG(8)							  System Logging							 SYSLOG(8)

NAME
syslog-ng, syslogd DESCRIPTION
There are different syslog daemon implementations supported as the system's syslog service, currently syslogd, syslog-ng and rsyslogd The first installed daemon activates itself for the syslog service. Starting with openSUSE-11.2, it is rsyslogd, before it was syslog-ng. But this depends on the software selection during the installation. The name of the daemon used as syslog service is specified in the SYSLOG_DAEMON variable in /etc/sysconfig/syslog. The yast2 sysconfig module provides a comfortable way to switch to another installed daemon and restart the service. The /etc/init.d/syslog init script is able to handle all supported daemons. BUGS
Please report bugs at <http://www.suse.de/feedback> AUTHOR
Juergen Weigert <jw@novell.com> Marius Tomaschewski <mt@novell.com> SEE ALSO
sysklogd(8) syslogd(8) syslog.conf(5) syslog-ng(8) syslog-ng.conf(5) rsyslogd(8) rsyslog.conf(5) syslog May 2008 SYSLOG(8)
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