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Rainer Weikusat wrote, On 1/5/2012 5:17 PM:
> Bill M<wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com>  writes:
>> I'm researching logging for C applications to run on Debian
>> Squeeze. Having previous experience with log4net, ported from log4j, I
>> see it has also been ported to log4c. It appears to be a project
>> without much recent activity and support.
>>
>> Does anyone here have any experience with log4c? Comments?
>>
>> Would anyone care to recommend a logger API?
>
> I'd vote for syslog as well. That's a standardized facility for
> collecting unspecified 'diagnostic output'[*] from any number of
> applications in a central place and it saves people using your
> software (even it that's only you) to deal with another logfile
> sitting in some random place (and presumably, growing and growing and
> ... until the disk is full)
>
> 	[*] No, that's not supposed to be an auditing log for 'events
> 	which occured on the system' although it is also used as such.


Thanks. Syslog it is then. Actually I have Rsyslogd, which appears to be 
much more capable than the old syslog I was sort of familiar with.

It looks like I should be able to setup a .conf file under 
/etc/rsyslog.d and log different program's output to different log files 
using a property-based filter, perhaps in combination with a traditional 
facility/priority selector. Is that the right way to approach this? What 
sort of additional features might I want to consider?

Of course, I'll use the standard logrotate facility to make sure log 
files don't grow forever.

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logging Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-05 15:17 -0600
  Re: logging Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-01-05 15:41 -0700
  Re: logging Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-01-05 17:56 -0500
    Re: logging Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-05 17:33 -0600
      Re: logging Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-01-05 19:31 -0500
  Re: logging Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-01-05 23:17 +0000
    Re: logging Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-05 18:41 -0600
      Re: logging Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-01-05 21:16 -0700
        Re: logging Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-06 14:52 -0600
          Re: logging Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-06 16:39 -0600
      Re: logging Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-09 17:58 -0600
        Re: logging Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-10 00:13 +0000

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