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I have an application which is writing to syslog. The messages written to the syslog are for various buckets which need to be filtered out. Every message starts with a bucket number, so the messages are written as:

1: Message for bucket 1
14: Message for bucket 14
123: Message for bucket 123

I want to filter these messages based on the bucket number, which I suppose can be done with a regex. These buckets are numeric and can be in the range 1-999. The output for these buckets should go different files, one for each bucket. For the above example, it should be:

/var/log/myapp/1.log
/var/log/myapp/14.log
/var/log/myapp/123.log

Can someone help me with how this can be done with rsyslog?

I'm exploring daemontools to run some of our applications, which generate some output as well (on both stdout and stderr).

I installed daemontools on a debian box. Every time, I do a svc -u /etc/service/myservice to start the service, I get a [defunct] process. How can I go about debugging this problem.

Following is my /etc/service/myservice/run:

#!/bin/bash
exec myservice -c /etc/myservice/myservice.conf

and /etc/service/myservice/log/run

#!/bin/sh
exec multilog t ./main

Any help would be apppreciated. Thanks.