Getting Syslog working on OSX Monterey

[Philip Bloom]

Thanks.  Had tried it with no address, which defaults to ('localhost',
'514') as well as address='/var/run/syslog' which had been working
previously, and the doc recommends as:
For example, on Linux it’s usually ‘/dev/log’ but on OS/X it’s
‘/var/run/syslog’. You’ll need to check your platform and use the
appropriate address (you may need to do this check at runtime if your
application needs to run on several platforms)

Aiming for this to be being picked up on the same computer I'm running the
test script (Python -> Logging -> SyslogHandler -> Mac OS Syslogd -> parsed
ASL config -> /var/log/Appname/Appname.log).   It's why I think I may be
missing something fundamental, but it feels like something subtle changed
in the latest OSX.

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:26 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 08:34:21 -0800, Philip Bloom
> <philip.bloom at applovin.com> declaimed the following:
>
> >
> >sys_handler = SysLogHandler(address='/var/run/syslog')
>
>         As I read the documentation, the address is supposed to be the
> NETWORK
> address of the machine to receive the log messages...
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.handlers.html#sysloghandler
>
> >#sys_handler.encodePriority(SysLogHandler.LOG_USER,
> SysLogHandler.LOG_ALERT)
> ># Tried with the above, but didn't make a difference.  Neither did not
> >defining the address and letting it go to local host.
> >sys_handler.setFormatter(syslog_format)
> >root_logger.addHandler(sys_handler)
> >
> >logging.critical("This is a test")
> >logging.error("This is a test error")
> >logging.info("Still a test")
> >logging.debug("Testy test")
> >
> >Using command line: Oddly, this gets to Console.Apps messages from device
> >reliably, though doesn't get picked up by syslog -w or get received by the
> >ASL config redirect:
> >syslog -s -l error -k Message "appName: this is a test2"
> >syslog -s -l notice -k Message "appName: this is a test3"
> >
> >ASL configuration, which is loaded according to syslog -config:
> >> /var/log/appName/appName.log mode=0640 compress format=std rotate=seq
> >file_max=50M all_max=500M
> >? [CA= Sender appName] file /var/log/appName/appName.log
> >
> >My end goal is really to get just a working python logging ->
> >var/log/appname/appname.log again so glad to just be pointed in the right
> >direction if way off base.
>
>
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