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.handlers

logger = logging.getLogger('bender')
handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(('localhost',
logging.handlers.SYSLOG_UDP_PORT),
logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.LOG_USER)
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(filename)s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s')
handler.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.addHandler(handler)
logger.error('what')

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]

On Apr 18, 11:42 pm, "Nicholas Milkovits" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Hello all,

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

importlogging,logging.handlers

logger =logging.getLogger('bender')
handler =logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(('localhost',loggi ng.handlers.SYSLOG_UDP_PORT),logging.handlers.SysL ogHandler.LOG_USER)
formatter =logging.Formatter('%(filename)s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s')
handler.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.addHandler(handler)
logger.error('what')

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