diff -r caed0ed82709 -r 9326ed989645 pvl/syslog/syslog.py
--- a/pvl/syslog/syslog.py	Fri Jan 04 21:26:39 2013 +0200
+++ b/pvl/syslog/syslog.py	Fri Jan 04 21:27:17 2013 +0200
@@ -14,19 +14,27 @@
         select():able source.
     """
     
-    def __init__ (self, syslog, source, poll=None) :
+    def __init__ (self, source, parser, filter, poll=None) :
         """
             Using given underlying line source.
                 
-                syslog      - iterable
                 source      - source to select() if poll=True
                 poll        - polling behaviour
         """
         
-        self.syslog = syslog
         self.source = source
+        self.parser = parser
+        self.filter = filter
+
         self._poll = poll
 
+    def syslog (self) :
+        """
+            Yield available input.
+        """
+
+        return self.filter(self.parser(self.source))
+
     def poll (self, poll=None) :
         """
             Poll our source for input, with given polling behaviour:
@@ -81,7 +89,7 @@
         # mainloop
         while True :
             # pull in messages
-            for item in self.syslog :
+            for item in self.syslog() :
                 log.debug("%s", item)
                 yield item
             
@@ -95,4 +103,3 @@
 
         log.debug("exit")
 
-    __iter__ = main