newbie: C-Program write to /var/log/mylog via syslog
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I have a C program I am writing and need this program to write to syslog and have the logs in a separate file for my program.
Eg. My program is called "example.c", then I want to have a log file called "example.log" in /var/log. Do I define log file "example.log"in syslogd.conf file?
Or have the C-Program to write to this file via syslog?
I want to have the message in the format yyyy/mm/dd 24HR:MMS LOG_TYPE: MESSAGE
I need to have date and time in format yyyy/mm/dd 24HR:MMS. Log_type is an severity of error. and MESSAGE is acutal error message.
Do you really want your operating system to do the logging? Or do you only need a file created with log entries in it?
WaltP I am pretty curious to know now, how would you make OS to log things for. As far i know it should have done by programmer itself isn't Or... am i going wrong somewhere
WaltP I am pretty curious to know now, how would you make OS to log things for. As far i know it should have done by programmer itself isn't Or... am i going wrong somewhere
Only in your explanation. You said "I have a C program I am writing and need this program to write to syslog..." Syslog means system log, the log file for the system and I was simply wondering if you really meant what you said.
When you need to log a message, call a function that uses sprintf() to put the message together. Open the file, write the message, close the file.
Only in your explanation. You said "I have a C program I am writing and need this program to write to syslog..." Syslog means system log, the log file for the system and I was simply wondering if you really meant what you said.
When you need to log a message, call a function that uses sprintf() to put the message together. Open the file, write the message, close the file.
Sorry i dint say that, perhaps u confused between the OP and me. I just question u. So there no feature in the OS which basically logs any events for the applications, instead we need to write ower own. Thats fine.
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