Pipe an input file through a script

[mauleta]

Is it possible to pipe an input file through another script for syslog-ng to forward?  I have a file that has multiple lines per record with a blank line as a record dlimiter.  It needs to be forwarded to our centralized syslog server as one line per record.  I already have a script to do it, just need to know what I need in syslog-ng.conf to accomplish it.

Thanks

[Admin]

Probably the best way to do it is by creating a socket and setting syslog-ng to read from the socket, and the script to write to the socket.  On the road at the moment, but I can post how that would look in syslog-ng.conf later this evening.

[Admin]

Here is a sample that will do what you need using named pipes:

Code:

source s_pipe { pipe("/var/run/logpipe");};
destination d_messages { file("/var/log/pipelogs");};
log {source(s_pipe); destination(d_messages);};

Have your script direct it's output to /var/run/logpipe and they should show up in /var/log/pipelogs.  Once the logs are getting in to syslog-ng, you can filter them, send them to different destinations, etc.