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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: OT: Firefox vs Chromium on Fedora 43
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 20:34:15 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <wwvv7c0vigp.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk>,
Richard Kettlewell  <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>> The question was how one gets output written to the standard
>> error stream from some process into syslog.  The `syslog` and
>> related functions don't really help with that, unless you write
>> a program that reads that data (presumably over a pipe) and pass
>> it as an argument to `syslog` et al.
>
>The program has existed for years, it’s called ‘logger’.

I'm aware.  The point was that just linking to the POSIX
definitions for `syslog` et al was, again, answering a different
question than the one posed.

>> But even if one does the user may not have permissions to write to the
>> system log.
>
>Possible in principle I suppose, but it seems like a weird configuration
>since it’d make it less convenient for non-root daemons to use syslog.

It is actually quite common on a multi-user system.

As for system daemons that don't run as root, most versions of
`syslogd` these days support an option to specify the pathname
to multiple Unix domain sockets that they'll accept messages on;
those can be permitted differently for different daemons (many
of which may well be running in their own `chroot` prisons or
something similar, and thus unable to reach the standard socket
path anyhow).

	- Dan C.