06-30-2008
The only thing I can think of to do is run the script via crontab, every minute of every day, such as this:
* * * * * /usr/bin/myscript
But this project manager wants the script to run 'realtime', meaning every time a log message writes from syslogd.
There does not seem to be any way to trigger a script to run through syslogd..........
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