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From: "Russell E. Owen" <rowen@uw.edu>
Subject: redirect stderr to syslog?
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:04:33 -0700
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We are using the syslog module for logging, and would like to redirect 
stderr to our log. Is there a practical way to do it?

I realize the logging module supports this and has a syslog writer, so 
that's a fallback. But we were hoping to use the syslog module for 
performance.

-- Russell