asl2syslog.py

import sys
import socket

server_address = '/var/run/lockdown/syslog.sock'
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

try:
    sock.connect(server_address)
except socket.error, msg:
    print >>sys.stderr, msg
    sys.exit(1)

try:

    data = sock.recv(64)
    print data
    sock.sendall('watch\n')
    f = open('/var/log/syslog', 'a')
    while 1:
        data = sock.recv(256)
        if (data):
           f.write("".join(data.split('\x00')))
        else:
           sleep(1)

finally:
    f.close()
    print >>sys.stderr, 'closing socket'
    sock.close()