eventarelli.syslog

Class Syslog

java.lang.Object

eventarelli.syslog.Syslog

public class Syslog
extends java.lang.Object

Wrapper around openlib and syslog methods from the operating system's library that controls the system log.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static interface	Syslog.Clib Define the libc methods we want and create a static instance of these methods mapped to the native libc.so library.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Syslog()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	debug(java.lang.String... args) Log a message at LOG_DEBUG level.
static void	info(java.lang.String... args) Log a message at LOG_INFO level.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Print the message "hello world!" with ident "test_syslog" to the LOG_USER facility and also print the message to stderr.
static void	openlog(java.lang.String ident, Facility facility, Option... logopts) Setup more specialized processing of the messages sent by syslog().

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Syslog

public Syslog()

Method Detail

openlog

public static void openlog(java.lang.String ident,
                           Facility facility,
                           Option... logopts)

Setup more specialized processing of the messages sent by syslog().

Parameters:

ident - This will be prepended to every message.

facility - Default facility for messages that do specify one.

logopts - Specifies logging options.

debug

public static void debug(java.lang.String... args)

Log a message at LOG_DEBUG level.

info

public static void info(java.lang.String... args)

Log a message at LOG_INFO level.

Takes a printf style list of strings; for example, Syslog.debug("%s is the %s", "42", "answer");

Note that the %s is the only formatting anchor that makes sense, as all arguments are strings.

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Print the message "hello world!" with ident "test_syslog" to the LOG_USER facility and also print the message to stderr.

Parameters:

args - Ignored