>On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Eugene Vilensky <evilen...@gmail.com>= > wrote: >> Hi, >> Is syslog-ng available for OpenSolaris, through IPS or otherwise? = >=A0If >> I were to build it, is there an "easy" metapackage for the build >> system, maybe analogous to Red Hat's rpmbuild+dependencies or Debia= >n's >> "build-essential" metapackage? > >I doubt that if it were installed on OpenSolaris that it would work >for processing logs for local programs. This is because the things >that do the logging are going to use libc's implementation of >syslog(3C), which logs via a door (see libdoor(3lib)). Doors are >unique to [Open]Solaris and as such syslog-ng is unlikely to be >listening for log messages at /etc/.syslog_door.
Solaris Syslog doesn't log using a door. Solaris logs on "/dev/conslog" but uses the door only to determine if the syslogd is running. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
