I sent this message to the beginners mail list. As yet, I have
not received any answer. So, I repeat my query here.
I am working on a Intel PIII running RedHat 7.2 having perl5.6.0 which
was installed along with the OS. I have copied an example
program as follows:
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Sys::Syslog;
#Misses setlogsock
use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock); #Also gets
setlogsock
openlog($0, 'cons,ndelay,pid', 'user');
print "program: $0\n";
syslog('info', 'this is another test');
syslog('mail|warning', 'this is a better test: %d', time);
closelog();
print "problem was $!\n";
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When I execute the program, I get the following output:
program: ./syslog.pl
problem was Bad file descriptor
There is no output on the screen or any of the /var/log files. The
/etc/syslog.conf file is as follow:
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.*
/dev/console
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none;cron.none
/var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.*
/var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*
/var/log/maillog
# Log all the warning messages in one place.
*.warn
/var/log/syslog
# Log cron stuff
cron.*
/var/log/cron
# Everybody gets emergency messages, plus log them on another
# machine.
*.emerg
*
# Save mail and news errors of level err and higher in a
# special file.
uucp,news.crit
/var/log/spooler
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*
/var/log/boot.log
#
# INN
#
news.=crit
/var/log/news/news.crit
news.=err
/var/log/news/news.err
news.notice
/var/log/news/news.notice
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
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