init script for rsyslog to forward remote syslog to another server

rsyslogforwarder

#!/bin/bash
#
# rsyslogforwarder        Starts rsyslogd/rklogd forwarder.
#
#
# chkconfig: 2345 12 88
# description: Syslog is the facility by which many daemons use to log \
# messages to various system log files.  It is a good idea to always \
# run rsyslog.
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: $syslog
# Required-Start: $local_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs
# Default-Start:  2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Enhanced system logging and kernel message trapping daemons
# Description: Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd supporting, 
#              among others, MySQL, syslog/tcp, RFC 3195, permitted 
#              sender lists, filtering on any message part, and fine 
#              grain output format control.
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0
PIDFILE=/var/run/syslogdforwarder.pid

prog=rsyslog
exec=/sbin/rsyslogd
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/rsyslogforwarder

# Source config
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] ; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/$prog
fi

start() {
	[ -x $exec ] || exit 5

	umask 077

        echo -n $"Starting system logger: "
        daemon --pidfile="$PIDFILE" $exec -i "$PIDFILE" $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS -f /etc/rsyslogforwarder.conf
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
        return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
        echo -n $"Shutting down system logger: "
        killproc -p "$PIDFILE" $exec
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
        return $RETVAL
}
reload()  {
    RETVAL=1
    syslog=$(cat "${PIDFILE}" 2>/dev/null)
    echo -n "Reloading system logger..."
    if [ -n "${syslog}" ] && [ -e /proc/"${syslog}" ]; then
	kill -HUP "$syslog";
	RETVAL=$?
    fi
    if [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ]; then
	failure
    else
	success
    fi
    echo
    return $RETVAL
}
rhstatus() {
        status -p "$PIDFILE" -l $prog $exec
}
restart() {
        stop
        start
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart)
        restart
        ;;
  reload|force-reload)
	reload
	;;
  status)
        rhstatus
        ;;
  condrestart|try-restart)
        rhstatus >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
        restart
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload|status}"
        exit 2
esac

exit $?