On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:08:22 +0000, "Andy Green" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Wally Winchester wrote: > >>>What do you mean? > >> > >>Maybe a UNIX Socket will meet the socket transport semantics better than > >>a FIFO. They also appear as files. > >> > >>When I am using Echo into that fifo, echo is just treating it like a > >>file. But logger opens the given "file" as a socket it seems. > > > Great! How can I create a socket? > > As I understand it > > fd=socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0); > > I don't know how syslog-ng can accept to be told to listen on such a > socket. > > netcat > > can do the job of Echo in such a way (see -U switch) > > There exists a > > mksock > > from the MAKEDEV package, it has no manpage, I am afriad that's as much > as I know. > > -Andy I think it would be easier to call Sys::Syslog rather than use logger. Ugh. Thanks very much for your help! :) -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different?
