seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:

> 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?

I don't see why not. That's where we (NetBSD) got it from in the first
place.

        - Nathan