metalog - an alternative syslog daemon

metalog [--async] [--daemonize] [--consolelevel=0..7] [--configfile=config file] [--help] [--pidfile=pid file] [--sync]

Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd. The logged messages can be dispatched according to their facility, urgency, program name and/or Perl-compatible regular expressions. Log files can be automatically rotated when they exceed a certain size or age. External shell scripts (ex: mail) can be launched when specific patterns are found.

Metalog is easier to configure than syslogd and syslog-ng, accepts unlimited number of rules and has (switchable) memory bufferisation for maximal performance.

--async

Improve performance by using buffers (bug log files won't get updated in real time)

--daemonize

have the server start in background (daemonization) .

--consolelevel=0..7

Set the console log level (Linux only).

--configfile=config file

Use an alternate configuration file.

--help

Output help information and exit.

--pidfile=pid file

Use an alternate file to store the process number.

--sync

Start in synchronous mode, with no bufferization.

/etc/metalog.conf

/var/run/metalog.pid

/dev/log

Leo Lipelis <aeoo@gentoo.org>

Hendrik Visage <hvisage@users.sourceforge.net>

Frank DENIS (Jedi/Sector One) <j@pureftpd.org>