[dvblast-devel] dvblast loggin to syslog

[Georgi Chorbadzhiyski]

Around 08/25/2011 03:44 PM, Вячеслав Адаманов scribbled:
> There are a couple of proposals for logging events in dvblast.
> When you run multiple copies dvblast on different DVB cards to determine
> which copies can only PID of the process, it is not convenient if using
> remote syslog.

It seems from reading the code that syslog ident is set from the executable name.
(see dvblast.c around line 812), so if you run dvblast with different names (you
may use symlinks) you'll have messages from each dvblast easily recognizable.

> May be counters in the mrtg module default write into syslog and if the path
> to the file, duplicate the data in it?

Why is having mrtg counters in the syslog useful?

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