On Aug 15, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wie...@rna.nl> wrote: > Now, that says that syslog messages also end up in Unified Logging. What it > doesn’t say how for instance old style messages for facility mail with level > notice end up there. Or with facility daemon with level info. So, how to get > these out is still a riddle.
They show up in unified logging. I found reading through the various manpages to be helpful - and there's an old WWDC video that you might find interesting: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/721/ > Why did Apple leave all the ASL stuff in place if it isn’t functional > anymore? It’s still there in Mojave. Why did they not offer a decent > compatibility? Afraid people would not move to OS-specific log commands? Sigh. Stuff compiled against previous versions of Mac OS X continues to work using the 'old' stuff (ie, if you built your own postfix and then upgraded your OS - it would still log the way it had done previously). I had a bunch of syslog.conf stuff that I moved to asl.conf that I now just don't have (or have half-replaced with use of the 'log' command). I find using 'log' to find logs much worse than using text-processing tools on text files - but we have to work with what we get from Apple. -- Daniel J. Luke
