https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/888054ae8a357d2df0f62aadf1840be1d4e... commit: 888054ae8a357d2df0f62aadf1840be1d4eaee9e branch: 3.11 author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> committer: vsajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> date: 2022-08-25T08:38:02+01:00 summary: [3.11] gh-91070: Add note about SysLogHandler on macOS 12.x (Monterey). (GH-94803) (GH-96260) files: M Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst index 026f14153cbe..1e61a519bc06 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst @@ -629,6 +629,12 @@ supports sending logging messages to a remote or local Unix syslog. application needs to run on several platforms). On Windows, you pretty much have to use the UDP option. + .. note:: On macOS 12.x (Monterey), Apple has changed the behaviour of their + syslog daemon - it no longer listens on a domain socket. Therefore, you cannot + expect :class:`SysLogHandler` to work on this system. + + See :gh:`91070` for more information. + .. versionchanged:: 3.2 *socktype* was added.