Syslogger 0.0.2

Log messages by facility and level.

A quick program to write to a specified log facility at a specified log level.

Usage:

` syslogger.py FACILITY LEVEL [--address ADDRESS] MESSAGE `

where FACILITY is one of:

• AUTH

• AUTHPRIV

• CRON

• DAEMON

• FTP

• KERN

• LPR

• MAIL

• NEWS

• SYSLOG

• USER

• UUCP

• LOCAL0

• LOCAL1

• LOCAL2

• LOCAL3

• LOCAL4

• LOCAL5

• LOCAL6

• LOCAL7

and LEVEL is one of:

• DEBUG

• INFO

• WARNING

• ERROR

• CRITICAL

and ADDRESS is the address of the socket that your system logger is listening to (defaults to /dev/log),

and MESSAGE is the message you’d like to log.

I originally wrote this so I had a way to quickly and easily test my syslog-ng configuration. Of course there were probably already programs that would do this, but for whatever dumb reason, I couldn’t find them. (logger came to mind much later - http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?logger+1.) On the bright side, it gave me the opportunity to mock the Python logging class for my unit test, using Gary Bernhardt’s Dingus library. https://github.com/garybernhardt/dingus. I also used his Expecter library again. Big thanks to Gary. He’s been my goto for Python + TDD.