On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Josko Plazonic wrote: > I attach a sample patch that adds syslog option in addition to output to > a file. Just set syslog_ident=yum in /etc/yum.conf and it should send > exactly the same text from /var/log/yum.conf also to syslog with ident > string=yum (or whatever else you choose). I also made it possible to Thinking about this fragemnt: + syslog_facility = LOG_USER Syslog message facility + syslog_priority = LOG_INFO Syslog message priority I wonder if it should be hardcoded, or merely defaulted and over-rideable in the yum.conf file. Possibly validation that a permitted value from the facility and priority lists from man 5 syslog.conf (possible by populating a pair of allowable values, and verifying that a yum.conf value exists in that particular array) -- Russ Herrold