In message <mtupsyxsc0x.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>, "Nathan J. Willia ms" writes: >The MIT Athena newsyslog(8) did the latter with config-file-specified >filter flags, to run arbitrary commands. See >http://web.mit.edu/source/athena/etc/newsyslog/. ... Well, they already did everything I want. Any reason we shouldn't just steal it? -s