I'm a bit of a Perl newbie, and while the answer to this may be in a doc somewhere, I can't find it despite my best efforts. I'm working on a script that uses Sys::Syslog. The following three lines are towards the end of the script: 
  my $logfacility = "auth";
  my $loglevel = "notice";
  <snip>
  openlog("HP-Alert","cons",$logfacility);
  syslog ($loglevel,"Blocked all connects from %s due to %d connection
+s!", $connectdata[2], $alerts);
  closelog;

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The openlog call succeeds, but on my SPARC OpenBSD 2.9 system the syslog call seems to hang the script (^C is needed to get out). syslogd is running and everything else seems to look OK. Any ideas?

BTW, for the curious, it's a script to protect against outbound attacks from a honeypot; more details at Xwell.org.

In reply to Sys::Syslog Hangs by elvolio

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