---
name: "Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "liblog-agent-perl"
version: "1.005-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog"
---

# Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog(3pm)

syslog logging channel for Log::Agent::Logger

## NAME

Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog - syslog logging channel for Log::Agent::Logger

## SYNOPSIS

```
 require Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog;
 my $channel = Log::Agent::Channel::Syslog->make(
     # Specific attributes
     -prefix     => prefix,
     -facility   => "user",
     -showpid    => 1,
     -socktype   => { port => 514, type => "udp" },
     -logopt     => "ndelay",
 );
```

## DESCRIPTION

The syslog logging channels directs operations to **syslog()** via the **Sys::Syslog**(3) interface.

The creation routine **make()** takes the following switches:

- "-facility" =\> *facility*

  Tell **syslog()** which facility to use (e.g. "user", "auth", "daemon"). Unlike the **Sys::Syslog**(3) interface, the facility is set once and for all: every message logged through this channel will use the same facility.

- "-logopt" =\> *syslog options*

  Specifies logging options, under the form of a string containing zero or more of the words *ndelay*, *cons* or *nowait*.

- "-prefix" =\> *prefix*

  The *prefix* here is syslog's identification string.

- "-showpid" =\> *flag*

  Set to true to have the PID of the process logged. It is false by default.

- "-socktype" =\> *options*

  Configures the logging socket.

  The given *options* are passed without interpretation to `"setlogsock()"` hence refer to **Sys::Sylog**(3) for the exhaustive set of configuration options there.

  If you run `"rsyslogd"` over TCP on a non-standard port 60514 for instance, you could say:

  ```
          -socktype => { port => 60514, type => "tcp" }
  ```

  but there are many other configuration possibilities.

## AUTHOR

Raphael Manfredi *\<Raphael\_Manfredi@pobox.com\>*

## SEE ALSO

**Log::Agent::Logger**(3), **Sys::Syslog**(3).