Sending to Syslog in Rust

A small library to write to local syslog.

Installation

syslog is available on crates.io and can be included in your Cargo enabled project like this:

toml [dependencies] syslog = "~3.0.0"

documentation

Reference documentation is available here.

Example

```rust extern crate syslog;

use syslog::{Facility,Severity};

fn main() { match syslog::unix(Facility::LOGUSER) { Err(e) => println!("impossible to connect to syslog: {:?}", e), Ok(writer) => { let r = writer.send3164(Severity::LOGALERT, String::from("hello world")); if r.iserr() { println!("error sending the log {}", r.err().expect("got error")); } } } } ```

The struct syslog::Logger implements Log from the log crate, so it can be used as backend for other logging systems.

There are 3 functions to create loggers:

• the unix function sends to the local syslog through a Unix socket: syslog::unix(Facility::LOG_USER)
• the tcp function takes an address for a remote TCP syslog server and a hostname: tcp("127.0.0.1:4242", "localhost".to_string(), Facility::LOG_USER)
• the udp function takes an address for a local port, and the address remote UDP syslog server and a hostname: udp("127.0.0.1:1234", "127.0.0.1:4242", "localhost".to_string(), Facility::LOG_USER)