Sys::Syslog(3)

NAME
Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls

SYNOPSIS
    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;

DESCRIPTION
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:
$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 If $priority permits, logs ($format, @args) printed as by "printf(3V)", with the addition that %m is replaced with ""$!"" (the latest error message). Sets log mask $mask_priority and returns the old mask. 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. Closes the log file.

    Note that "openlog" now takes three arguments, just like "openlog(3)".

EXAMPLES
    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)

SEE ALSO
syslog(3)

AUTHOR
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>.