[OT]: Syslog issues?

Luis Motta Campos luismottacampos at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 22 09:18:20 GMT 2007


On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:30:41PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe said:
>> If you call the syslog server "lumberjack" I WILL KEEELLLL YOU
>
> Many, many years ago I wrote a quick Perl script, called  
> lumberjack, to
> log into various servers and collate log files. Then it got more
> complicated and got a config file. Then the config file got variables.
> And scope. Then I rewrote it using Parse::RecDescent. Then I realised
> that since I was basically doing
>
>     % lumberjack /path/to/config/file
>
> I could actually just do
>
>     #!/usr/local/bin/lumberjack
>     ...
>
> Then I got scared and never touched it again.

   Good laught. Thanks!
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