Re: CRONOLOG: Invoking cronolog from syslog.conf?

[Alan Sparks <asparks@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm guess Linux here.  I think you misunderstand the pipe semantics. 
The man page shows that the pipe is to a named pipe (created with
mkfifo), not a command name.

You would need to create the named fifo, then start cronolog on that
named pipe (for reading), then start syslogd to be the writer.

Untested, your mileage may vary.
-Alan

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:08, Philipp Murkowsky wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Has anybody ever tried to invoke cronolog from syslog.conf? I have tried 
> to pipe syslog entries to cronolog by using something like
> 
> lpr.*              | /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/cups/pagelog-%Y.%m
> 
> in syslog.conf but it doesn't work.
> 
> TIA, Philipp
> 
> 
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