[Logs-devel] write to filename

[Jim Prewett]

Hi Vijay,

I'm getting stuck!

I want to write a rule that separates messages into files by service.  
Messages from syslogd go to the syslogd file, sshd the sshd file, etc.

The problem is, I don't want to have the files just go to whatever the PWD 
is, I want to be a little more specific than that.  I want to use the 
variable that I bind in the match function, SERVICE, to generate the name 
of the file to write to.  

This rule should do what I want:

(rule 
  named 'logfile-splitter
  matching regexp "(?:\\S+ ){4}(\\w+)"
  binding (SERVICE)
  doing
  (lambda (message)
    (LoGS::write-to-file
      (format () "/Users/dl/logs-work/split/~A" SERVICE)
      message)))

Do you have any ideas on how could we add this to the RDL?  (aka. make 
this easier to write)

Another, very simular, rule I'd like to write would divide the logfile up 
by host by service.

Thanks for any thoughts you might have,
Jim

James E. Prewett                    address@hidden address@hidden 
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