Hallo, Marius Schebella hat gesagt: // Marius Schebella wrote:
I want to feed the log-output of an apache2 server into Pd. I know that it is possible to pipe the access_log (or any other log-output) of the apache2 to a process, by defining something like CustomLog "|/usr/bin/send_to_pd" common On the Pd side I would like to use a receive, or a netreceive object. My problem is, that I don??t know how to join those two processes... Should I try to write a script (bash, perl, python?), or is there a way to pipe directly into pd?
I would write a little script. There are examples how to send to netreceive written in perl and python in the CVS or on pure-data.info, it's really simple.
You could also use the pdsend utility, however doing it in Python is more flexible IMO, especially as you also need to append a ";" after each line to send.
You could direct the apache log output to a FIFO pseudofile created with "mkfifo /path/to/fifo" on Linux, then read from there, or do a "tail"-clone in Python or use bash or whatever.
Ciao
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