[olug] syslog help

[Mike Hostetler]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:59:48AM -0600, Trent Melcher wrote:
> Can you make a system call in your app. to user logger???

> The other recommendation would be if your application was written in C, and
> you have access to the code, to use the syslog.h function.  Works really
> well.
> 

The answer is: this is a Java app that I'm QA'ing. So:
  o no, I can't do a syscall to logger, since that would be changing
code. 
  o not in C.

But I did use logger to send a test message to my user.log, and the log
was created with the message, i.e. syslog-ng is working to a certain extent.

-- mikeh