[Omaha.pm] How can I log to metalog from Perl?

[Mike Hostetler]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:24:35 -0500, Jay Hannah <jhannah at omnihotels.com> wrote:
> 
> Hola --
> 
> I'm trying to log to metalog from Perl w/o forking a call to "logger". (I'm worried about 
> performance since my app will be high volume).

That is a good thing . . .  Sys::Syslog is a wonderful.

> 
> I use this program:
>
[snip] 
> 
> And, in a syslogd log, I see this:
> 
> Sep 15 10:34:25 king ProgramX: Test 1
> Sep 15 10:34:25 king ProgramX: What?: Test 2
> 
> Which is great. In a metalog log, I see this:
> 
> ProgramX: [What?] Test 2_

I got the same thing . . .

A google brought me to this thread: 

  http://www.mail-archive.com/beginners@perl.org/msg50054.html

Upgrading Metalog to the latest my Gentoo box has (0.8_pre20031130)
showed the same thing.

>From the thread I linked to above, they seem to say that Unix::Syslog
works better with metalog.  I haven't tried it at all.

Methinks that metalog is broken somehow.

My $0.02 . . .

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