Log::Report::Dispatcher::Syslog - send messages to syslog
Log::Report::Dispatcher::Syslog is a Log::Report::Dispatcher
# add syslog dispatcher dispatcher SYSLOG => 'syslog', accept => 'NOTICE-' , format_reason => 'IGNORE' , to_prio => [ 'ALERT-' => 'err' ]; # disable default dispatcher, when daemon dispatcher close => 'default';
This dispatchers produces output to syslog, based on the Sys::Syslog module (which will NOT be automatically installed for you, because some systems have a problem with this dependency).
The REASON for a message often uses names which are quite similar to the log-levels used by syslog. However: they have a different purpose. The REASON is used by the programmer to indicate the cause of the message: whether it was able to handle a certain situation. The syslog levels are there for the user's of the program (with syslog usually the system administrators). It is not unusual to see a "normal" error or mistake as a very serious situation in a production environment. So, you may wish to translate any message above reason MISTAKE into a LOG_CRIT.
The default translation table is list below. You can change the mapping using new(to_prio). See example in SYNOPSIS.
TRACE => LOG_DEBUG ERROR => LOG_ERR ASSERT => LOG_DEBUG FAULT => LOG_ERR INFO => LOG_INFO ALERT => LOG_ALERT NOTICE => LOG_NOTICE FAILURE => LOG_EMERG WARNING => LOG_WARNING PANIC => LOG_CRIT MISTAKE => LOG_WARNING
Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Log::Report::Dispatcher.
Extends "METHODS" in Log::Report::Dispatcher.
Extends "Constructors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher.
Inherited, see "Constructors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher
With syslog, people tend not to include the REASON of the message in the logs, because that is already used to determine the destination of the message.
-Option --Defined in --Default accept Log::Report::Dispatcher depend on mode charset 'utf8' facility 'user' flags 'pid,nowait' format <unchanged> format_reason Log::Report::Dispatcher 'IGNORE' identity <basename $0> include_domain <false> locale Log::Report::Dispatcher <system locale> logsocket undef mode Log::Report::Dispatcher 'NORMAL' to_prio []
Translate the text-strings into the specified charset, otherwise the sysadmin may get unreadable text.
The possible values for this depend (a little) on the system. POSIX only defines user, and local0 up to local7.
user
local0
local7
Any combination of flags as defined by Sys::Syslog, for instance pid, ndelay, and nowait.
pid
ndelay
nowait
[1.10] With a CODE reference you get your hands on the text before it gets sent to syslog. The three parameters are: the (translated) text, the related text domain object, and the message object. You may want to use context information from the latter.
[1.19] After the three positional parameters, there may be a list of pairs (named parameters) with additional info. This may contain a location with an ARRAY of information produced by caller() about the origin of the exception.
location
[1.00] Include the text-domain of the message in each logged message.
If specified, the log socket type will be initialized to this before openlog() is called. If not specified, the system default is used.
openlog()
See reasonToPrio().
Extends "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher.
Returns the CODE ref which formats the syslog line.
Inherited, see "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher
Extends "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher.
Inherited, see "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher
Returns a level which is understood by syslog(3), based on a translation table. This can be changed with new(to_prio).
Extends "DETAILS" in Log::Report::Dispatcher.
This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 1.36, built on October 27, 2023. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/
Copyrights 2007-2023 by [Mark Overmeer <markov@cpan.org>]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
To install Log::Report, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Log::Report
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Log::Report
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.