No logging in Solaris 9 (with workaround) - question?

[Randy Fishel]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:38 AM, Julian Field wrote:

>
> René Berber wrote:
>> René Berber wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>>     eval {
>>> #     if ($^O !~ /solaris|sunos|irix/i) {
>>>         Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('udp');
>>> #     } # else {
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> My mistake, even if it works as shown above I should have changed  
>> it like this (I'm not sure about Irix or SunOS so it may still be  
>> wrong):
>>
>>     eval {
>>       if ($^O !~ /solaris|sunos|irix/i) {
>>         Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix');
>>       } else {
>>         Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('udp');
>>       }
>>     }
>>
> Can other Solaris users comment on this please?
>

   As Solaris implements Syslog as a network service, it _should_ use  
some form of a network
socket.  A 'unix' domain socket implies the open of /dev/log or /dev/ 
conslog (which may not generate the desired results, especially if  
the syslog device is a remote machine).

   However, though using 'udp' might work, I prefer to use 'inet', as  
it will implement the connection over the protocol that is actually  
being used (tcp or udp).  So my suggestion would be to make this    
'Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('inet');'  (and what all my syslog perl  
scripts do without problems from Solaris 2.5.1 to OpenSolaris).

rf