Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 23:26:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Alexander Maret <maret@atrada.net> Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Redirect stdout/stderr to syslog [OFF-TOPIC] Message-ID: <200009012226.e81MQY716346@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Alexander Maret <maret@atrada.net> of "Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:58:56 %2B0200." <58A002A02C5ED311812E0050044517F00D25DA@erlangen01.atrada.de>
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> Hi,
>
> I wonder if it is possible to redirect stdout/stderr to syslog.
>
> Background:
> I'm writing a program which starts (fork=>execvp) and observes
> another program. I would like to redirect all output of the "execvped"
> program to syslog.
>
> I know this is not really FBSD related but I hope you can help
> me anyway. Please don't tell me that I should redirect the output
> to a file and not to syslog. I know how to redirect the output to
> a file (that's my prog doing at present state).
I guess you could do something like:
int fd;
fd = open(_PATH_DEVNULL, O_RDONLY);
dup2(fd, STDIN_FILENO);
close(STDOUT_FILENO);
openlog(....);
dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO);
> Bye,
> Alex
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