Passing variables to ErrorLog pipe

Hi,

I'm using a pipe for my error log like this:

ErrorLog "|/web/etc/log_error_pipe.pl"

Is there any way of passing information to the pipe other than the log
entry? Specifically I'd like to pass the HTTP_HOST value to it...

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Mike Cardwell - IT Consultant and LAMP developer
Cardwell IT Ltd. (UK Reg'd Company #06920226) http://cardwellit.com/

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Re: Passing variables to ErrorLog pipe

Mike Cardwell wrote:

> I'm using a pipe for my error log like this:
>
> ErrorLog "|/web/etc/log_error_pipe.pl"
>
> Is there any way of passing information to the pipe other than the log
> entry? Specifically I'd like to pass the HTTP_HOST value to it...

I came up with a pretty sick solution. I set the ErrorLog to log to
syslog rather than a pipe.

Using syslog gives the error log one extra piece of useful information
which is the pid of the apache child. It also contains the client IP and
time.

So I set the CustomLog to log to a pipe, and updated the LogFormat to
include the pid, start time and end time.

So if the error log entry has a time inbetween the start/end time of the
access log entry, and it shares the same client ip and pid, then I can
link it to a particular access log entry.

I have a script tailing the syslog file gathering error log information,
and listening on a udp port for the CustomLog pipe process to send
packets containing pid/ip/start_time/end_time/HTTP_HOST

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Mike Cardwell - IT Consultant and LAMP developer
Cardwell IT Ltd. (UK Reg'd Company #06920226) http://cardwellit.com/

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