using the sysloghandler class

[Nicholas Milkovits]

Hello all,

I have a small script which attempts to write to the user.log syslog

import logging, logging.handler s

logger = logging.getLogg er('bender')
handler = logging.handler s.SysLogHandler (('localhost',
logging.handler s.SYSLOG_UDP_PO RT),
logging.handler s.SysLogHandler .LOG_USER)
formatter = logging.Formatt er('%(filename) s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s')
handler.setForm atter(formatter )
logger.addHandl er(handler)
logger.error('w hat')

but no log entries show up, however if I use the syslog module as such:

>>import syslog
>>syslog.syslog ('testing syslog')

everything works fine. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Any help
would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Nick

[Vinay Sajip]

Re: using the sysloghandler class

On Apr 18, 11:42 pm, "Nicholas Milkovits" <nmilkov...@gma il.com>
wrote:

Hello all,
>
I have a small script which attempts to write to the user.log syslog
>
importlogging,l ogging.handlers
>
logger =logging.getLog ger('bender')
handler =logging.handle rs.SysLogHandle r(('localhost', logging.handler s.SYSLOG_UDP_PO RT),logging.han dlers.SysLogHan dler.LOG_USER)
formatter =logging.Format ter('%(filename )s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s')
handler.setForm atter(formatter )
logger.addHandl er(handler)
logger.error('w hat')
>
but no log entries show up, however if I use the syslog module as such:
>

>import syslog
>syslog.syslog( 'testing syslog')

>
everything works fine. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Any help
would be appreciated.

The logging package's syslog handler attempts to use UDP to
communicate with the syslog daemon; are you sure your system is set up
with the daemon listening on SYSLOG_UDP_PORT ? If it's not, then this
could explain what you are seeing.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip