NAME

Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog - syslog logging channel for Log::Agent::Logger

SYNOPSIS

require Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog;

my $channel = Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog->make(
    # Specific attributes
    -prefix     => prefix,
    -facility   => "user",
    -showpid    => 1,
    -socktype   => { port => 514, type => "udp" },
    -logopt     => "ndelay",
);

DESCRIPTION

The syslog logging channels directs operations to syslog() via the Sys::Syslog(3) interface.

The creation routine make() takes the following switches:

-facility => facility

Tell syslog() which facility to use (e.g. "user", "auth", "daemon"). Unlike the Sys::Syslog(3) interface, the facility is set once and for all: every message logged through this channel will use the same facility.

-logopt => syslog options

Specifies logging options, under the form of a string containing zero or more of the words ndelay, cons or nowait.

-prefix => prefix

The prefix here is syslog's identification string.

-showpid => flag

Set to true to have the PID of the process logged. It is false by default.

-socktype => options

Configures the logging socket.

The given options are passed without interpretation to setlogsock() hence refer to Sys::Sylog(3) for the exhaustive set of configuration options there.

If you run rsyslogd over TCP on a non-standard port 60514 for instance, you could say:

-socktype => { port => 60514, type => "tcp" }

but there are many other configuration possibilities.

AUTHOR

Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>

SEE ALSO

Log::Agent::Logger(3), Sys::Syslog(3).