Watchdog External Logging Drupal 5 Backport

I made a "reverse bounty" post on Bryght.com about this.

Khalid Bahey is well on his way to getting a patch into Drupal 6 for spitting out logging of watchdog entries so that:
1. They can be routed to a different source other than the database,from a flat file to syslog support. The watchdog table can crush manysites.
2. Actions can be taken depending on the messages. Get notification viaemail, IM, pager, etc. depending on the severity levels of messages inyour watchdog.This will be a fantastic feature for Drupal 6....but really, we needit today for Drupal 5 as well. I've spoken with Khalid and he's willingto backport both the patch as well as the supporting modules. The planof attack is:* Wait till the patch gets in to 6.x.
* Create a project on d.o for the two contrib modules syslog, and email
* Backport the modules to 5.x.

Please comment on the groups.drupal.org entry with any questions you may have.