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diff --git a/doc/openwrt_logger.md b/doc/openwrt_logger.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1179c8b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/openwrt_logger.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# openwrt_logger.py + +This script is supposed to be run by cron every 5 minutes or so. +It looks for new lines in log file and sends them to remote server. + +OpenWRT must have remote logging enabled (UDP; IP of host this script is launched on; port 514) + +`/etc/rsyslog.conf` contains following (assuming `192.168.1.1` is the router IP): + +``` +$ModLoad imudp +$UDPServerRun 514 +:fromhost-ip, isequal, "192.168.1.1" /var/log/openwrt.log +& ~ +``` + +Also comment out the following line: +``` +$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat +``` + +Cron line example: +``` +* * * * * /home/user/homekit/src/openwrt_logger.py --access-point 1 --file /var/wrtlogfs/openwrt-5.log >/dev/null +``` + +`/var/wrtlogfs` is recommended to be tmpfs, to avoid writes on mmc card, in case +you use arm sbcs as I do.
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