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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:32:17 -0500
From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To: Stingray <chrisd@bsdbox.dynip.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: syslog
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On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:01:59PM -0600, Stingray wrote:
> This maybe somewhat off-topic, but here it goes anyway...
> 
> I'm trying to write a simple program that uses syslog on my FreeBSD
> computer , but I can't get it to work:
> 
> #include <syslog.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>         openlog("testing", LOG_NDELAY, LOG_DAEMON);
>         syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "test");
>         closelog();
>         
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> 
> It compiles, but when its run,  it does nothing.  does anyone know what's
> wrong with my program?

Nothing! You just don't have syslogd configured to log DEBUG messages. Replace
LOG_DEBUG in your program with LOG_WARN and it'll work.

Chris

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