[Serusers] some tunning to syslog messages - sr-users

27 Oct 2006

Hi all,

Along my ser.cfg code I want to print a formatted message using LOG 
functions like xlog implemented with xlog module of Ser. I already can 
do it, but now I pretend to write in the same xlog formatted message, 
some formatted text that can be splitted in multiple lines. I thought 
that it could be done using \n sintax, like in C, but some testing made 
me realise that it doesn't work. I also found that this isn't a problem 
of xlog module of Ser, but a limitation of Syslog service because doing 
a simple program like this won't result like expected:

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#include <syslog.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc,char ** argv){
           char *message = "This is a messagea  and this is the rest";
           int priority = LOG_INFO | LOG_LOCAL6;

          syslog(priority,"This is a message %c and this is the rest",13);

 return 0;
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

The output of this program results in the same line of syslog dump.

In ser.cfg if I do something like the following line, the resulting 
print to syslog is still written in one line:

xlog("L_INFO", "===> received [%rm] request\n From URI: [%fu]\n");

Syslog simply ignores the \n parameter.
Is there any other way to split xlog formatted messages of ser.cfg to be 
written to Syslog?

Thanks in advance,
Ricardo.