[squid-users] Re: Forward access.log to syslog/remote log server

ons 2003-07-09 klockan 15.53 skrev Hartmann.Josef Fa. secunet:

> I would like to forward the access.log to a remote syslog server. Is
> there a way to tell squid to forward access logs to syslog? Currently
> I'm using "tail -f access.log|logger -p "local4.info" but I don't like
> that practice.

Running a small daemon which mirrors access.log to the selected log
service is the recommended practice.

tail -f is not the most suitable tool for the job as it does not handle
log rotation. I would use the File::Tail perl module which is much more
suited for the job, and if combined with Sys::Syslog the script can do
all you need, and you can easily add logics to assign different
priorities to different log lines etc..

Regards
Henrik

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