[chef] chef client logging to syslog

[Sig Lange < >]

Syslog logger is at http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/SyslogLogger/

install w/ gem
# gem install SyslogLogger

A "free" quick n dirty method to get chef-client (and chef-solo) to log syslog

gem install 
Add the following to /etc/chef/client.rb (or solo.rb)

--- [ begin snip ] ---

require 'syslog_logger'
Chef::Log.logger = SyslogLogger.new("chef")

--- [ end snip ] ---

Ideally this would be a patch to chef-(solo|client) which could easily be configured *correctly.* but for immediate future, this fits the bill.

Cheers,
~  Sig