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Programming PHP, 3rd Edition
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Programming PHP, 3rd Edition

by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe, Peter MacIntyre
February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
538 pages
20h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

openlog

Synopsis

bool openlog(string identity, int options, int facility)

Opens a connection to the system logger. Each message sent to the logger with a subsequent call to syslog() is prepended by identity. Various options can be specified by options; OR any options you want to include. The valid options are:

LOG_CONS

If an error occurs while writing to the system log, write the error to the system console.

LOG_NDELAY

Open the system log immediately.

LOG_ODELAY

Delay opening the system log until the first message is written to it.

LOG_PERROR

Print this message to standard error in addition to writing it to the system log.

LOG_PID

Include the PID in each message.

The third parameter, facility, tells the system log what kind of program is logging to the system log. The following facilities are available:

LOG_AUTH

Security and authorization errors (deprecated; if LOG_AUTHPRIV is available, use it instead)

LOG_AUTHPRIV

Security and authorization errors

LOG_CRON

Clock daemon (cron and at) errors

LOG_DAEMON

Errors for system daemons not given their own codes

LOG_KERN

Kernel errors

LOG_LPR

Line printer subsystem errors

LOG_MAIL

Mail errors

LOG_NEWS

USENET news system errors

LOG_SYSLOG

Errors generated internally by syslogd

LOG_AUTHPRIV

Security and authorization errors

LOG_USER

Generic user-level errors

LOG_UUCP

UUCP errors

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