Question

Can some one post an example of using syslog outputter for log4r, I am currently using stdout but want to log to syslog.

mylog = Logger.new 'mylog' mylog.outputters = Outputter.stdout mylog.info 'Starting up.' 

raj

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Thanks also to the following blog posts.

Angrez’s blog: Log4r – Usage and Examples

ProgrammingStuff: Log4r

Answer 1

Kind of lame answering my own question, but I found answer to this and adding it for later searches.

For some reason I need to require log4r/outputter/syslogoutputter explicitly other wise SyslogOutputter would cause ‘uninitialized constant SyslogOutputter (NameError)’ error. Other outputters do not seem to have this problem.

require 'rubygems' require 'log4r' require 'log4r/outputter/syslogoutputter' mylog = Logger.new 'mylog' mylog.outputters = SyslogOutputter.new('f1', :ident => 'myscript') mylog.info 'Starting up.' 

raj