Date parsed: 8/24/2000 11:54:28 AM
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:54:28 +0200

Eric Rodziewicz schrieb in Nachricht
<3A25DBCDF73F2245957BD0B041BEDAF001655F@is1.netal.com>...
>
> I do exactly that with triggers in the database I send the data =
into.
>It is my "gateway to Syslog".

>
> I have very verbose notification/forwarding rules based on =
information
>in a different database.
>
> I think a Syslog Daemon should log and transport well, but leave =
the
>parsing of domain specific messages to other domain specific =
applications.

Your solution sounds great but I'm sure there are people who don't wan't =
to
(or aren't able to) manage a database-server with triggers etc. At least =
I
don't.
Furthermore, you loose the "actions" of sl4nt and have to implement them =
all
by
yourself. I think sl4nt is a great product and i try to use a much of =
its
functionality
as possible. All I added until today is a country specific sms-software =
to
send
some of the messages to my mobile phone.

On the other hand I agree that a syslog daemon should be small and =
simple so
how
about my idea of a preprocessor interface. the message-text should be
reroutable via
an external program/script which would return it after selective
string-manipulations.
that would only add one checkbox and one script-selection to the whole
system. Of
course from the user point of view, I'm not talking about the necessary
programming 😉.



my 2 ct.

greetings from Switzerland
Sascha