[171718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Odd syslog-ng problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Josack)
Sun May 11 00:02:31 2014
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 10:41:40 -0700
From: Gary Josack <gary@byoteki.com>
To: Peter Persson <webbax@webbax.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
It's hard to say without seeing the actual script. Is your script running
as a daemon or are you counting on syslog-ng to start your program per
message. If the latter, that's probably not the best strategy.
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Peter Persson <webbax@webbax.se> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I got a weird problem with my syslog-ng setup, im logging from alot of
> cisco machines and that works great.
> The problem is that when i "pass" this further to a shell program, some
> lines disapere.
>
> My destination looks like this
> destination hosts {
> file("/var/log/ciscorouters/$HOST.log"
> owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(yes));
> program("/scripts/irc/syslog_wrapper_new.sh" template(t_irctempl));
> };
> The "/var/log/ciscorouters/$HOST.log" writes correct, but the data thats
> putted trough to "/scripts/irc/syslog_wrapper_new.sh" only get the first
> line, if it gets flooded (like 5 rows per second).
>
> Do anyone of you have any idea of what might be the problem?
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
