[ale] Monitoring dhcpd.leases file?

[Jim Kinney]

Hmm. Maybe some network tweaks in syslog for dual local and network logging. If the far site goes down, the log just queues for it to return.

On December 18, 2014 1:43:54 PM EST, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> You'll need to modify the dhcpd startup to tee the log file to the
>pipe
>> socket location. Be sure that socket is up first!
>
>
>Hmmm. I don't think that could be done in /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd. I
>suppose
>that would mean editing /etc/init.d/dhcpd :-/
>
>My current idea is to start a separate `tail -f | socat` process. But
>that
>fail if the receiving end needs to be restarted.
>
>
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