Re: [task #5490] syslog

[Barry deFreese]

Constantine Kousoulos wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> From http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5490:
> "Find and implement a suitable way to make the Hurd servers use 
> `syslog'. "
>
> Can someone explain what this task demands to be done?
>
> Debian's syslogd seems to be working with the current GNU/Hurd 
> snapshot. To test it, i added a few syslog entries in /hurd/utils/ps.c 
> and it worked ok.
>
> I understand that syslogd cannot act as klogd does in linux. Maybe we 
> need to modify GNU Mach or glibc's syslog.h to get something klogi. 
> But why can't syslogd work as it is for the hurd servers?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Constantine
Constantine,

AFAIUI, the task IS to make Hurd code write entries to syslog.

Good luck :-)

Barry