Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 09:48:55 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Subject: Re: Syslog Facility Message-ID: <19970907094855.FR18909@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901143100.1779A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>; from Jamil J. Weatherbee on Sep 1, 1997 14:38:58 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901135441.1473A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901143100.1779A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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As Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:
> I have looked at the code to lpd and pppd and I can't figure what I am
> doing wrong here. I am doing an:
>
> openlog (argv[0], LOG_PID|LOG_NDELAY, LOG_DAEMON);
>
> in main an later in another function
>
> syslog (LOG_ERR, "some message");
>
> but the syslog facillity is refusing to log the process id number eg:
>
> date machine programname[pid]: message
j@uriah 973% cat > foo.c
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/syslog.h>
int
main(void)
{
openlog("junk", LOG_PID | LOG_NDELAY, LOG_USER);
syslog(LOG_ERR, "some junk");
return 0;
}
^D
j@uriah 974% make foo
cc -O2 -m486 -pipe foo.c -o foo
j@uriah 975% ./foo
j@uriah 976% Sep 7 09:47:21 uriah junk[5692]: some junk
It works for me.
Btw., using argv[0] directly is not a good idea. Strip off the
leading pathname components.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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