NAME

       Log::Report::Dispatcher::Syslog - send messages to syslog

INHERITANCE

        Log::Report::Dispatcher::Syslog
          is a Log::Report::Dispatcher

SYNOPSIS

        # add syslog dispatcher
        dispatcher SYSLOG => 'syslog', accept => 'NOTICE-'
          , format_reason => 'IGNORE'
          , to_prio => [ 'ALERT-' => 'err' ];

        # disable default dispatcher, when daemon
        dispatcher close => 'default';

DESCRIPTION

       This dispatchers produces output to syslog, based on the Sys::Syslog module (which will
       NOT be automatically installed for you, because some systems have a problem with this
       dependency).

       The REASON for a message often uses names which are quite similar to the log-levels used
       by syslog.  However: they have a different purpose.  The REASON is used by the programmer
       to indicate the cause of the message: whether it was able to handle a certain situation.
       The syslog levels are there for the user's of the program (with syslog usually the system
       administrators).  It is not unusual to see a "normal" error or mistake as a very serious
       situation in a production environment. So, you may wish to translate any message above
       reason MISTAKE into a LOG_CRIT.

       The default translation table is list below.  You can change the mapping using
       new(to_prio).  See example in SYNOPSIS.

         TRACE   => LOG_DEBUG    ERROR   => LOG_ERR
         ASSERT  => LOG_DEBUG    FAULT   => LOG_ERR
         INFO    => LOG_INFO     ALERT   => LOG_ALERT
         NOTICE  => LOG_NOTICE   FAILURE => LOG_EMERG
         WARNING => LOG_WARNING  PANIC   => LOG_CRIT
         MISTAKE => LOG_WARNING

       See documentation in the base class.

METHODS

       See documentation in the base class.

   Constructors
       See documentation in the base class.

       $obj->close()
           See "Constructors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       Log::Report::Dispatcher::Syslog->new(TYPE, NAME, OPTIONS)
           With syslog, people tend not to include the REASON of the message in the logs, because
           that is already used to determine the destination of the message.

            -Option       --Defined in             --Default
             accept         Log::Report::Dispatcher  depend on mode
             charset        Log::Report::Dispatcher  <undef>
             facility                                'user'
             flags                                   'pid,nowait'
             format_reason  Log::Report::Dispatcher  'IGNORE'
             identity                                <basename $0>
             locale         Log::Report::Dispatcher  <system locale>
             logsocket                               undef
             mode           Log::Report::Dispatcher  'NORMAL'
             to_prio                                 []

           accept => REASONS
           charset => CHARSET
           facility => STRING
             The possible values for this depend (a little) on the system.  POSIX only defines
             'user' and 'local0' upto 'local7'.

           flags => STRING
             Any combination of flags as defined by Sys::Syslog, for instance "pid", "ndelay",
             and "nowait".

           format_reason => 'UPPERCASE'|'LOWERCASE'|'UCFIRST'|'IGNORE'|CODE
           identity => STRING
           locale => LOCALE
           logsocket => 'unix'|'inet'|'stream'
             If specified, the log socket type will be initialized to this before openlog is
             called.  If not specified, the system default is used.

           mode => 'NORMAL'|'VERBOSE'|'ASSERT'|'DEBUG'|0..3
           to_prio => ARRAY-of-PAIRS
             See reasonToPrio().

   Accessors
       See documentation in the base class.

       $obj->isDisabled()
           See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       $obj->mode()
           See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       $obj->name()
           See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       $obj->needs()
           See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       $obj->type()
           See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

   Logging
       See documentation in the base class.

       $obj->collectLocation()
       Log::Report::Dispatcher::Syslog->collectLocation()
           See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       $obj->collectStack([MAXDEPTH])
       Log::Report::Dispatcher::Syslog->collectStack([MAXDEPTH])
           See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       $obj->log(HASH-of-OPTIONS, REASON, MESSAGE)
           See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       $obj->reasonToPrio(REASON)
           Returns a level which is understood by syslog(3), based on a translation table.  This
           can be changed with new(to_prio).

       $obj->stackTraceLine(OPTIONS)
       Log::Report::Dispatcher::Syslog->stackTraceLine(OPTIONS)
           See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

       $obj->translate(HASH-of-OPTIONS, REASON, MESSAGE)
           See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher

DETAILS

       See documentation in the base class.

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 0.998, built on October 22, 2013.
       Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2007-2013 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.  See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html