From: Will Parsons <oudeis@...>
Date: 2007-09-01T10:15:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Syslog facility

greg wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am having trouble with pointing the syslog messages to a particular
> facility. Is this the right way to point it at facility local1:
>
>     Syslog.open('name_of_prog', facility = Syslog::LOG_LOCAL1)
>     Syslog.log(Syslog::LOG_NOTICE, "message_goes_here")
>     Syslog.close
>
> I would really appreciate your help!

The way I do it is:
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require 'syslog'
...
$log = Syslog.open('progname', Syslog::LOG_PID, Syslog::LOG_LOCAL1)
...
$log.info("messsage")
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Will