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 Message-ID: <19990109223217.A22276@palomine.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990109205500.8630A-100000@bsdbox.dynip.com>; from Stingray on Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:01:59PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990109205500.8630A-100000@bsdbox.dynip.com>
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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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