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Created October 24, 2012 14:01
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Perl script that is capable of sending httpd logs to syslog
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apache_syslog.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Sys::Syslog qw( :DEFAULT setlogsock );
openlog('httpd', 'cons,pid', LOG_LOCAL0);
while ($log = <STDIN>) {
syslog(LOG_NOTICE, $log);
}
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Adaptation of the Perl script on this page: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html

The original version was coming into Papertrail prefixed by "kernel", rather than correctly identifying the httpd process. I reviewed the Sys::Syslog documentation and made some adjustments.

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