I am trying to output some log messages from some perl code (specifically local4.* messages to a perl script). Frankly i thought this was fairly trivial, but my script doesn't seem to receive the data. here's what my syslog.conf line looks like:

local4.* | /home/code/perlscript

Here's the code I *THOUGHT* would work (simplified greatly for this question): 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while (<>) {
open (LDAPOUT, ">>/home/code/writtenbyperllog");    
    print LDAPOUT $_;
close LDAPOUT;
}

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Since syslogd (5) says it should pipe to a command as STDIN, but it don't. I've tested script by:

$ echo "gobbledygook" | ./perlscript

and it works fine so I am assuming it's something I don't know about syslog output somewhere. I've tried every google search I can think for some examples but haven't found anything. Thanks! Binford

In reply to Outputting syslog to some perl code by Binford

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