A small nif to write to the local syslog daemon inspired by the project JacobVorreuter/erlang_syslog. Patches wanted.

Installation

$ git clone git://github.com/klyr/syslognif.git
$ cd syslognif
$ make

TODO

• tests

Usage

Easier than you think:

$ erl -pa ebin
1> syslog:open("foo", [pid, cons], local0).
ok
2> syslog:write(err, "This is a dead parrot!").
ok
3> syslog:close().
ok

Syslog options

pid, cons, odelay, ndelay, nowait, perror

Facilities

kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron, authpriv, ftp, local0-7

Priorities

emerge, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug

For more information about these options see syslog(3) man page.