SUMMARY: fping and console logging

From: Stuart Kendrick (sbk@fred.fhcrc.org)
Date: Wed Jul 29 1998 - 13:00:29 CDT


The original query:

I have a couple programs which log to the console ... and I don't want
them logging to the console.

I'll start with fping v2.2b1. Great app. Logs to the console ... doesn't
log to syslog.

Is there a generic way to reverse this behavior, e.g. tell it to log to
syslog but not to the console?

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There are various solutions, including modding fping to redirect STDERR to
syslog. Thanks to Peter L. Buschman for shell script wrappers, attached
below.

Peter L. Buschman <plb@concentric.net>
Karl Vogel <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>
Dave Wreski <dave@sam.nic.com>
James R Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>

This redirects STDOUT to syslog.

#!/bin/sh
##------------------------------------------------------------------------------
## fpw - A wrapper for fping to support syslogging of responses.
##
## Peter L. Buschman <plb@concentric.net>
## 07/27/1998
##------------------------------------------------------------------------------

set -a
PATH=/usr/bin:/path/to/fping

FPINGOPTS="$*"
FACILITY="LOCAL1"
PRIORITY="INFO"

fping $FPINGOPTS | while read RESPONSE
do
  logger -p ${FACILITY}.${PRIORITY} -t FPING "$RESPONSE"
done

##------------------------------------------------------------------------------
## syserr - A wrapper to syslog the stderr stream of any program.
##
## Peter L. Buschman <plb@concentric.net>
## 07/27/1998
##------------------------------------------------------------------------------

set -a
PATH=/usr/bin:/path/to/program

PROGRAM="myprogram"
PROGOPTS="$*"
FACILITY="LOCAL1"
PRIORITY="INFO"
SCRATCH="/tmp/scratch.$$"

$PROGRAM $PROGOPTS 2> $SCRATCH
cat $SCRATCH | while read RESPONSE
do
  logger -p ${FACILITY}.${PRIORITY} -t "$PROGRAM" "$RESPONSE"
done
rm $SCRATCH



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