Getting Syslog working on OSX Monterey

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2022-02-27 22:16:54 +0000, Barry wrote:
> If you look at the code of the logging modules syslog handle you will see that
> it does not use syslog. It’s assuming that it can network to a syslog listener.
> Such a listener is not running on my systems as far as I know.
> 
> I have always assumed that if I want a logger syslog handler that I would have
> to implement it myself. So far I have code that uses syslog directly and have
> not written that code yet.

What do you mean by using syslog directly? The syslog(3) library
function also just sends messages to a "syslog listener" (more commonly
called a syslog daemon) - at least on any unix-like system I'm familiar
with (which doesn't include MacOS). It will, however, always use the
*local* syslog daemon - AFAIK there is no standard way to open a remote
connection (many syslog daemons can be configured to forward messages to
a remote server, however).

        hp

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