Hi, Many models of HP printers use syslog to report out of paper and other events. It can be set using the control panel. I am sure that there a lot more out there. What is not widely known is how to configure them. Writing the client side of syslog is pretty trivial. For an embedded device such as a printer, elevator controlers, key card entry system, etc. all you need is an assembly language routine to fill in the buffer on Ethernet interface with the contents of a UDP packet with the destination port being the syslog port, and then signal the Ethernet device to send the buffer. Likewise, it is very easy to add the ability to a program to directly send syslog packets. Using the O'Reilly book "Perl Cookbook" I wrote a Perl syslog client in one afternoon. So this brings me to the question, what syslog enabled applications are there? These would applications that not only would log to the local host, but could also be configured to directly send syslog packets to directly to an external syslog server. B Cing U Buck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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