Solaris 2.8 and perl-5.6.1 have a little problem with Sys::Syslog. Somewhere in the build process things go a little wrong with Sys::Syslog and it doesn't learn about LOG_AUTH.

After a bit of google i came up with this to fix it

use Sys::Syslog;
package Sys::Syslog;
sub xlate {
    local($name) = @_;
    $name = uc $name;
    $name = "LOG_$name" unless $name =~ /^LOG_/;
    return (4<<3) if $name eq 'LOG_AUTH';         # a fix for LOG_AUTH
    $name = "Sys::Syslog::$name";
    eval { &$name } || -1;
}
package main;
openlog "testing","pid","auth";
syslog "info", "log this please";

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so for an actual question... does anybody know why LOG_AUTH gets skipped in the build process?

In reply to Sys::Syslog LOG_AUTH perl-5.6.1 and Solaris 2.8 by zengargoyle

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