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Syslog is a standard for logging program messages.

Syslog is a standard for logging program messages.Wikipedia

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Syslog messages show up as "Unknown" when I use Python's logging.handlers.SysLogHandler

When I run this on my mac: import logging.handlers logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) syslog_address = '/var/run/syslog' logger.addHandler(logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(syslog_address)) logger.error("What the…
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Is there any way to 'expect' output to error_log in PHPUnit tests?

Is there any way to run a test on output created from a call to 'error_log("Message")' when doing unit tests with phpunit? Example code, one of my functions tests a credit card with a luhn algorithm: if($checkLuhn && ($this->_luhn_check($cardNumber)…
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Writing log data to syslog using log4j

I'm unable to write log messages into syslog. Any help would be great. Here is my simple log4j program import org.apache.log4j.Logger; import java.io.*; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.util.*; public class log4jExample { /* Get actual…
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syslog_r for Linux?

Folks, I can't find the re-entrant version of syslog() for Linux...is there one? And if no, what do you? The obvious answer is to move logging facility into separate thread and serialise access to syslog...
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How to configure syslog so that an applications log goes to a specific file

I have an application myapp which should send log files only to /var/log/myapp.log. myapp is written in C++. The following sample code, sends the logs to /var/log/syslog only. My os is Linux - Ubuntu 12.04 - to be specific. I also found that my…
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how to get php errors to show on syslog

I have a script which is scheduled to run on crontab. I noticed that I could not see php errors anywhere. I wanted to be able to see php errors logged on /var/log/syslog or some place else. I have tried configuring my php.ini to log the errors on…
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Adding year in the syslog message (linux)

I need to log the year in the log message generated by syslog daemon. In particular in the /var/log/secure file. Is it possible? Here an example of normal syslog message: Feb 16 04:06:58 HOST sshd[28573]: Accepted password for USER from SOURCE port…
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Python SysLogHandler over TCP: handling connection loss

I have a process sending logs to a syslog server over TCP using logging.SyslogHandler. Unfortunately, if the syslog server is restarted for some reason, the process stops sending logs and is unable to re-establish the connection. I was wondering if…
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Using Syslog's unix socket with Log4J2

I would like to send the logs of an application on a rsyslog server using the client protocol : Unix socket. Both application and rsyslog server are on the same machine. I've been comparing different logging tools : Log4J, Logback and…
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how to write to kiwi syslog server log c#

I have a program that I need to send some logs into Kiwi Syslog Server. I have looked around the net for a guide in c#, but I found nothing. I would like to have an easy to understand explanation of how to do it. Whenever someone clicks on a button…
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Using syslog in rails application

I am thinking of using syslog in my rails applications. The process is outlined in this blog post: Add gem 'SyslogLogger' to your Gemfile Add require 'syslog_logger' to the top of config/environments/production.rb Also uncomment the config.logger =…
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How to avoid Broadcast messages from syslog printed on the console

I have a written a small code to send messages to syslog using C Api's when there is failure to connect to postgres database. int main ( int argc, char **argv ) { PGconn *psql; PGresult *res; int flag = 0; openlog (…
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How to use tail with syslog file wrap-around?

Upon certain conditions /var/log/syslog file is saved to /var/log/syslog.0 and a new empty /var/log/syslog is created to serve the system. The problem is - if tail -f /var/log/syslog runs during the above switch, then tail stops showing anything…
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How to make log4j syslog appender write a stack trace in one line?

I am using log4j syslog appender and notice that when an exception occurs the appender writes every entry in the stack trace as a new line. Is there a way to configure it so that the entire stack trace will go as one line instead of multiple lines?
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How to configure Tomcat to log everything via syslog?

I'm trying to configure Tomcat and a webapp (Atlassian JIRA) to log everything over syslog. Here is what I added to the webapp log4j.properties (atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties) : log4j.rootLogger=WARN,…
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