I want to use syslog for logging all messages from my CGI and CRON scripts.
But I don't want to send these messages to system's syslog (/dev/log) because these CGI/CRON scripts should be installed on hosting where I don't have access to system logs.
I want to send these messages to my own /dev/log -like unix socket. (I will start syslog-like daemon (socklog+svlogd) to listen on this socket.)

So, the question is: how I can configure Sys::Syslog to send my messages to my unix socket "/var/www/blah/log" instead of "/dev/log"?

I expected this code to work: 
use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock);
setlogsock("stream", "/var/www/blah/log") or die $!;
openlog "onliner", "pid", "user" or die $!;
syslog "warning", "test=%d", 15;

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but it isn't working. I've found only one dirty hack to do this (after looking at Sys::Syslog source): 
use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock);
sub Sys::Syslog::_PATH_LOG {"/var/www/blah/log"}
setlogsock("unix") or die "setlogsock: $!";
openlog "onliner", "pid", "user" or die "openlog: $!";
syslog "warning", "test: %d", 15;

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Is there exists not so ugly way?

In reply to Sys::Syslog to my file by powerman

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