Method System.openlog()

Method openlog

void openlog(string ident, int options, facility)

Description

Initializes the connection to syslogd.

Parameter ident.

The ident argument specifies an identifier to tag all logentries with.

Parameter options

A bitfield specifying the behaviour of the message logging. Valid options are:

LOG_PID	Log the process ID with each message.
LOG_CONS	Write messages to the console if they can't be sent to syslogd.
LOG_NDELAY	Open the connection to syslogd now and not later.
LOG_NOWAIT	Do not wait for subprocesses talking to syslogd.

Parameter facility

Specifies what subsystem you want to log as. Valid facilities are:

LOG_AUTH	Authorization subsystem
LOG_AUTHPRIV
LOG_CRON	Crontab subsystem
LOG_DAEMON	System daemons
LOG_KERN	Kernel subsystem (NOT USABLE)
LOG_LOCAL	For local use
LOG_LOCAL1
LOG_LOCAL2
LOG_LOCAL3
LOG_LOCAL4
LOG_LOCAL5
LOG_LOCAL6
LOG_LOCAL7
LOG_LPR	Line printer spooling system
LOG_MAIL	Mail subsystem
LOG_NEWS	Network news subsystem
LOG_SYSLOG
LOG_USER
LOG_UUCP	UUCP subsystem

Note

Only available on systems with syslog(3).

Bugs

LOG_NOWAIT should probably always be specified.

See also

syslog, closelog