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 = "^4.0"

documentation

Reference documentation is available here.

Example

```rust extern crate syslog;

use syslog::{Facility, Formatter3164};

fn main() { let formatter = Formatter3164 { facility: Facility::LOG_USER, hostname: None, process: "myprogram".into(), pid: 42, };

match syslog::unix(formatter) { Err(e) => println!("impossible to connect to syslog: {:?}", e), Ok(mut writer) => { writer.err("hello world").expect("could not write error message"); } } } ```

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(formatter)
• the tcp function takes an address for a remote TCP syslog server: tcp(formatter, "127.0.0.1:4242")
• the udp function takes an address for a local port, and the address remote UDP syslog server: udp(formatter, "127.0.0.1:1234", "127.0.0.1:4242")