Hi Everyone,
I need to be able to create a summary report of all relevent syslog entries that is then emailed weekly.
The idea I have for this is to pipe the syslog entries (logged from many hosts UNIX-Like and Windows) out to a a named pipe (say /var/log/logpipe) that is then read periodically by a perl script started from cron.
The perl script then filters the log entries (probably using regular expressions) and takes the appopriate action based on the severity of the error (i.e. log to summary file, or immediately email admin).
My main concern is that if a lot of entries get logged the FIFO buffer may overload therefore loosing entries.
Does anyone know what the size of the FIFO buffer is (or how it can be configured) or maybe there is a better way to do something like what I'm trying.
TIA
Regards
Lee W