On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:46:45 -0800, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote
> use perl, but I'm just showing off my age), but can syslog do this 
> directly?

Not really. You should consider to use 'syslog-ng'
http://www.balabit.hu/en/downloads/syslog-ng/

With that, you can do whatever you want ;-)

Uli

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Before you start asking questions, you might want to RTFM.
Just maybe, and i do mean maybe, you might see the light
(although i doubt it).