Re: Better Syslog server

>The code is a shambolic mess, but you might like to pick up
>http://www.batten.eu.org/~igb/syslogd.tar.gz at some point.  On Linux is
>runs fine on its own, on Solaris you need /usr/sbin/syslogd -t running
>to pick up the stuff on the syslog door.  I don't feed that back around
>into my code, I just take it out to a file, as the log of the logging
>machine isn't wildly interesting.  You put the code in /var/syslogd/bin.

No information is logged on "syslog_door"; it's just a door_call
syslog clients perform to see whether the syslog daemon is alive.

i.e., all you need to do is to have a door server alive on that
particular door; it does not consume information; all information
is then logged through /dev/sysmsg.

Casper