Greetings, ye monks so monkey.

I have a really weird problem with Sys::Syslog. In Linux, it seems to work normally, and on OpenBSD I get nothing. No log messages, no errors, nothing.

Does anyone know why this might be? Or does anyone know a good way to get verbosity from Sys::Syslog or syslogd? I'm hoping for someone who understands the underpinnings of syslog and might know what's going on here. Since it works on Linux, I don't think it's a problem with my code.

I've tried a few different log levels and facilities.

#! /usr/bin/perl -w -T

use strict;
use Sys::Syslog qw(:standard :macros);

openlog('Wibble','pid,nowait',LOG_USER) || die "Whaaaaaa\n";

syslog(LOG_ALERT,"This is a test") || die "BOO HOO\n" ;

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UPDATE:

If I specify 'unix' as the connection type, it works. So, I still don't know what the real problem was, but at least I can get on with my work...

setlogsock('unix')

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In reply to Sys::Syslog Troubles by pileofrogs

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