Re: Logger logs as user.notice

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct 11 16:51, Jaime Saiz Santos wrote:
> Hi.
> I have two questions regarding syslog & logger in inetutils package:
> 
> 
> 1. logger command seems to ignore -p option: it behaves as if 
> "user.notice" were put always.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> $ cat /etc/syslog.conf
> local3.*                /var/log/local3
> user.notice                /var/log/user
> 
> $ net stop syslogd
> $ net start syslogd
> $ logger -p local3.info Some message
> 
> It writes the message in /var/log/user, instead of in /var/log/local3.
> Am I doing something wrong?

Nope.  Cygwin is doing something wrong.  Cygwin's syslog function fails
to send the facility and priority word to syslogd.  Fixed in CVS.

> 2. A blank space is written between the tag and the colon in the output 
> message.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> Oct 11 16:45:00 mymachine mytag : Some text         instead of:
> Oct 11 16:45:00 mymachine mytag: Some text
> 
> Is it standard?

No, it's not.  I removed the extra spaces from the output in CVS.


Thanks for the report,
Corinna

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