David Champion wrote:
Correct. But as previously noted, syslog might not log anything at all on some systems -- that's why mm-handler didn't use it originally. And this is debugging code, not meant for live environments....
True, but Kenneth added additional logging beyond the debuging code.
Also, There are two perl modules, Sys::Syslog and Unix::Syslog. I'm not very familiar with perl and it's various modules, so I may be wrong, but I think that Sys::Syslog is the more common, but Kenneth is using Unix::Syslog. According to the FAQ at <http://search.cpan.org/~mharnisch/Unix-Syslog-0.100/Syslog.pm>, Unix::Syslog requires syslogd to be running on the local host, but given that, it doesn't communicate with syslogd through a network connection so it is not subject to the problems with that.
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