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syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog calls
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Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
use Sys::Syslog; # all except setlogsock, or:
use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock); # default set, plus setlogsock
setlogsock $sock_type;
openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility;
syslog $priority, $format, @args;
$oldmask = setlogmask $mask_priority;
closelog;
Sys::Syslog is an interface to the UNIX syslog(3) program.
Call syslog() with a string priority and a list of printf() args
just like syslog(3).
Syslog provides the functions:
- openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility
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$ident is prepended to every message.
$logopt contains zero or more of the words pid, ndelay, cons, nowait.
$facility specifies the part of the system
- syslog $priority, $format, @args
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If $priority permits, logs ($format, @args)
printed as by
printf(3V), with the addition that %m
is replaced with "$!" (the latest error message).
- setlogmask $mask_priority
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Sets log mask $mask_priority and returns the old mask.
- setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02)
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Sets the socket type to be used for the next call to
openlog() or syslog() and returns TRUE on success,
undef on failure.
A value of 'unix' will connect to the UNIX domain socket returned by the
_PATH_LOG macro (if you system defines it) in syslog.h. A value of
'inet' will connect to an INET socket returned by getservbyname(). If
_PATH_LOG is unavailable or if getservbyname() fails, returns undef. Any
other value croaks.
The default is for the INET socket to be used.
- closelog
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Closes the log file.
Note that openlog now takes three arguments, just like openlog(3).
openlog($program, 'cons,pid', 'user');
syslog('info', 'this is another test');
syslog('mail|warning', 'this is a better test: %d', time);
closelog();
syslog('debug', 'this is the last test');
setlogsock('unix');
openlog("$program $$", 'ndelay', 'user');
syslog('notice', 'fooprogram: this is really done');
setlogsock('inet');
$! = 55;
syslog('info', 'problem was %m'); # %m == $! in syslog(3)
syslog(3)
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> and Larry Wall
<larry@wall.org>.
UNIX domain sockets added by Sean Robinson
<robinson_s@sc.maricopa.edu> with support from Tim Bunce
<Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> and the perl5-porters mailing list.
Dependency on syslog.ph replaced with XS code by Tom Hughes
<tom@compton.nu>.
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syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog calls
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