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Auteur: Steve Litt
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Everyone OK for using the logger program for runit logging?
On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 11:42:36 +0200
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:


>     I can't see how to do better than logger. The only limitation is
> inherent to the very principle of redirecting stderr: the level is
> the same for all messages because it is passed in the logger command
> line. Instead, a daemon invoking syslog() is able to issue messages
> with various levels, which makes a lot more sense.


Yes!

We always hope that the daemon author puts in hiser own syslog()
calls, but incase heshe doesn't, logger can catch the stderr.

SteveT

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