[cups] accounting to mysql database?

[hw]

G.W. Haywood schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, hw at cups.org wrote:
>
>> Why can?t cups simply put the information it puts into the log file
>> directly into a database.
>
> There's no need to make that mountain out of this particular molehill.
>
> Why can't you just use your existing system logging daemon, or better
> still install syslog-ng, plus a simple shell/perl/whatever script?

Syslog-ng is already in use.  Cups bypasses it, writing its own
log files.

Would syslog-ng copy all messages to some program I can specify and not
care if that program fails?  If so, how would I make cups use syslog-ng?