[FEATURE] Daemonize teler

[dwisiswant0]

Discussed in #274

^{Originally posted by 0xjmux December 4, 2022}
I'm trying to run teler against an nginx access log, like the below from the docs:

$ tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log | teler -c /path/to/config/teler.yaml

However, all the resources I've found on the wiki/site have you run it in an active terminal session, or only analyze logs at a specific point in time. I'd like teler to analyze logs in real time, as they come in, and export it's own log in real time so it can be picked up by my SIEM system - which is configured to monitor teler's log file /var/log/teler.log.

My many attempts to convert teler into a systemd service have failed - you can't have pipes in service commands, for one. I won't go through all the things I've tried, but I figure there has to be a way to run teler as a service that can be set up to run in the background, instead of live in the foreground taking up a tty.

Is there a way to do this, and if so, how? Thanks.

[dwisiswant0]

Dependent on #277.

[clavinjune]

how about changing the input from stdin to -f files-name? We can do tailing inside teler instead of depends on tail -f

for example:

$ teler -c /path/to/config/teler.yaml -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

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[dwisiswant0]

how about changing the input from stdin to -f files-name? We can do tailing inside teler instead of depends on tail -f

Please see #277.

[asheroto]

@dwisiswant0 have you guys considered hosting the docs locally? I'd love to contribute. Or maybe there's docs repo I'm missing?

Here's a simple example of daemonizing with automatic reloading on config change:

https://gist.github.com/asheroto/ff192448bb27b27e7c2d7cefdc24f308

[dwisiswant0]

@asheroto - Hi, "the development of teler IDS is currently on hold"¹ - this announcement was made last week through teler-announce@googlegroups. Your input regarding local development documentation has been duly noted, and we will be addressing it by migrating (or completely rewriting) the docs.

Footnotes

1. [teler] Version 3 Roadmap 📝 [survey] ↩

[dwisiswant0]

I'm closing this issue as not planned.