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Simultaneously write to multiple syslog facilities?

Is it possible to have one application simultaneously write to multiple syslog facilities?

I have an application, written in C/C++, that I would like to write some messages to local0 and other messages to local1. I do not want the messages for local0 to appear in local1 or vice versa.

Solution

  • Looking at the man page for syslog, I see the example:

    syslog(LOG_INFO|LOG_LOCAL2, "foobar error: %m");

    Does

    syslog(LOG_INFO|LOG_LOCAL0, "message for local0");
syslog(LOG_INFO|LOG_LOCAL1, "message for local1");

    work?