syslog to app

[der.hans]

moin, moin,

I need to capture output from syslog into an application. I need that app
to catch *all* of the output from a particular service.

I have found that something that watches /var/log/whatever stops working
when the logs get rotated. Not a good thing. Maybe there's a way to do
that right. I'd rather not have to tie something into the syslog rotation
functionality as keeping the activities synced is probably a pain long
term.

I see that syslog can handle a FIFO. I tried using that, but it wasn't
working properly. Haven't ever done anything using FIFOs, so I'm probably
just hosing that up.

Anyway, I'd love to have some suggestions on how to do this right.

I am using perl for my application, but I can do or get a wrapper in c or
python done if that's better. I'd think perl can do it, though :).

danke,

der.hans
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