Monday, August 19, 2013

Using logger to send file data to syslogd


If you find yourself needing to have the contents of an ASCII text file written to syslog, then consider the use of the logger command. This comes with most Unix distributions and has also been ported to the Windows platform.There may be times whereby an application or system only logs to a text file and this data needs to be collected into your log management solution. For this example, I’ll