SPUG: /var/log/messages
Dan Ebert
mathin at mathin.com
Thu May 30 17:56:43 CDT 2002
I haven't done that, exactly, but have messed with a script I wanted to
use syslog to log errors, etc.
There is a module Net::Syslog which might be useful. You may need to
look-at/play-with your /etc/syslog.conf file to get it to do what you
want.
Dan.
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 14:59, Mikel Tidwell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a project where I want to write to /var/log/messages. From what
> I've read, this is not a recommended approach, but we already have software
> monitoring messages for critical messages, and I'd like to use this system
> already in place to flag a critical failure (not not normally logged).
>
> The example I have is when the mysql watching script finds the service hung
> (on a remote machine), it would write an error to /var/log/messages, and
> then someone would get paged about the message. This made more sense to me
> than duplicating the process already in place.
>
> So, how would all the gurus here recommend dealing with /var/log/messages?
> Do I treat it like a typical file, use a call to syslog somehow, or is this
> just a bad idea all together? Thanks for your continued help. :>
>
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