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Old 03-08-2011
Blocked while Redirecting the syslog messages to a pipe in the rc script file
Hi All,
I am newbie to linux and i am trying to re-direct the syslog messages to a pipe.
I have modified the syslog.conf file accordingly and have written an rc script to read from the pipe and put them to a file.

I was able to get the log messages to the file but my system is getting blocked in the rc script due to the "read" and i was not asked for the username and password for login.

This is my rc script is as follows

#!/bin/bash
cat /var/diagpipe | while read LINE
do
echo $LINE >> /var/Diag.log
done

syslog.conf

*.info |/var/diagpipe

My rc script is getting excecuted after the rc script for syslod is executed.

can someone please help me, so that with my rc script i will be reading the data from the pipe continuously and i should not block.

Don't know if stty solves my problem.

Thanks in Advance

Anil.
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Old 03-08-2011
System "rc" scripts are executed sequentially. If one stops (like this one) the system will not continue booting.

If you need the script to be a "rc" script, it should background the monitoring process (preferably inclusing some means to stop the process which can be executed from another "rc" script when the system shuts down).

As written I cannot see any advantage over just sending the syslog "info" log to a file rather than a pipe.
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