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From: Paul Coviello <pcoviello@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: syslog setup
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:58:35 -0400
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Jim Duff wrote:
> On 24/6/24 23:56, Paul Coviello wrote:
>> Paul Coviello wrote:
>>> Jim Duff wrote:
>>>> On 23/6/24 08:49, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> On 6/22/2024 5:57 PM, Jim Duff wrote:
>>>>>> On 23/6/24 03:23, Paul Coviello wrote:
>>>>>>> Jim Duff wrote:
>>>>>>>> [Massive snip]
>>>>>>> hmmm what was I expecting!  well it seemed pretty straight 
>>>>>>> forward in the PDF that you set it up as it says and it just 
>>>>>>> works, now after reading your comments there might be more I have 
>>>>>>> to do.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll try it on Monday.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and the logger test message does work. just trying to get OPCOM 
>>>>>>> to connect to it and hopefully your suggestions above I can 
>>>>>>> figure it out
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When you say "just trying to get OPCOM to connect to it" are you 
>>>>>> expecting that syslogd will somehow intercept your OPCOM messages 
>>>>>> and log them somewhere else?  Because it doesn't do that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It takes syslog messages that match the priorities you have 
>>>>>> assigned to forward to OPCOM, in this case local1.err, and does 
>>>>>> exactly that, as I demonstrated in the example.
>>>>>
>>>>> But if one want to send OPCOM messages to syslog then I assume one 
>>>>> could:
>>>>> * enable terminal as operator terminal
>>>>> * run a little utility program that trap broadcasts
>>>>>    and send them to syslog
>>>>> ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Arne
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sure, why not?
>>>>
>>>> https://www.eight-cubed.com/downloads.html#catch_opcom
>>>>
>>>> will trap the OPCOM messages, and it's a simple matter to open a 
>>>> datagram socket and write to the syslog port.
>>>>
>>>> Jim.
>>>
>>> Hi Jim I just downloaded the zip file and out of curiosity do I need 
>>> 'C' to run this?
>>>
>>>
>> never mind I answered my own question...  it doesn't run on itanium...
> 
> You need the C compiler to compile it, yes.  And no idea what "it 
> doesn't run on Itanium" means.  I originally wrote it on Alpha, and it's 
> been run in production on Alpha and IA64, and tested on x86.
> 
> Jim

"IT"  is the executable in the zip file won't run I thought it said 
something about platform being wrong...  and no 'C' which doesn't help


Now on a side note I did have a spelling issue in the startup file. took 
care of that but it doesn't exit the procedure after starting.  I'll 
know more tomorrow since I'm not logged in right now.

thanks