> 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 > invoke Logger with file_name param so that Logger can take care of > opening the output file on its own - it is more self contained in this > way (the open statement before creating logger object seemed out of > place, but that's just me :) ). So here's an interesting tidbit. Michael Stenner wrote a version of logger that was syslog-capable. In fact, I think he still has it. I'd be curious to know how he implemented it. Josko, could you take a look at: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/mini/logger/ and see if it is still there? If not, I'll take another look at your patch and see what can be done. I think syslogging yum output is a good idea. Care to write an epylog module (http://linux.duke.edu/epylog/) to go along with it? Would it be a worthwhile idea to change around the stuff that gets syslogged so it syslogs more important things and/or a slightly different layout for easier parsing? -sv
