Re: Log file to sql database

Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>

From: "Richard Huxton" <dev@archonet.com>
To: "Joseph" <lters@mrtc.com>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-04-02T12:09:46Z
Lists: pgsql-general
From: "Joseph" <lters@mrtc.com>

>
> Anyone care to share suggestions on getting data from a running syslog
into
> postgresql database?

I'd start with Perl and File::Tail - I think there's actually a different
module that handles log rotation etc too, but I can't remember what.

Might be worth looking at swatch and see if there's anything useful in
there.

HTH

- Richard Huxton