can tail log file and send the content to syslog
logger.pl -f <your_file_to_log_to_syslog> -p <pid_file> -i <prefix to syslog entries>
-u <userid>
-d will print to sdout too
NO -f will get stdin : useful to test : won't daemonize either
-s syslog facility (local5)
-l syslog level (debug)
apt-get install libunix-syslog-perl libfile-tail-perl
logger.pl -f
\0 ? syslog-ng package is in proposed-stable i believe. see querybts