open

Open the syslog facility. Raises a runtime exception if it is already open.

Can be called with or without a code block. If called with a block, the Syslog object created is passed to the block.

If the syslog is already open, raises a RuntimeError.

ident is a String which identifies the calling program.

options is the logical OR of any of the following:

LOG_CONS

If there is an error while sending to the system logger, write directly to the console instead.

LOG_NDELAY

Open the connection now, rather than waiting for the first message to be written.

LOG_NOWAIT

Don't wait for any child processes created while logging messages. (Has no effect on Linux.)

LOG_ODELAY

Opposite of LOG_NDELAY; wait until a message is sent before opening the connection. (This is the default.)

LOG_PERROR

Print the message to stderr as well as sending it to syslog. (Not in POSIX.1-2001.)

LOG_PID

Include the current process ID with each message.

facility describes the type of program opening the syslog, and is the logical OR of any of the following which are defined for the host OS:

LOG_AUTH

Security or authorization. Deprecated, use LOG_AUTHPRIV instead.

LOG_AUTHPRIV

Security or authorization messages which should be kept private.

LOG_CONSOLE

System console message.

LOG_CRON

System task scheduler (cron or at).

LOG_DAEMON

A system daemon which has no facility value of its own.

LOG_FTP

An FTP server.

LOG_KERN

A kernel message (not sendable by user processes, so not of much use to Ruby, but listed here for completeness).

LOG_LPR

Line printer subsystem.

LOG_MAIL

Mail delivery or transport subsystem.

LOG_NEWS

Usenet news system.

LOG_NTP

Network Time Protocol server.

LOG_SECURITY

General security message.

LOG_SYSLOG

Messages generated internally by syslog.

LOG_USER

Generic user-level message.

LOG_UUCP

UUCP subsystem.

LOG_LOCAL0 to LOG_LOCAL7

Locally-defined facilities.

Example:

Syslog.open("webrick", Syslog::LOG_PID,
            Syslog::LOG_DAEMON | Syslog::LOG_LOCAL3)