[chef] Re: chef client logging to syslog

[Joe Williams < >]

Thanks for posting this. I have been wondering if I could get the
chef-client logs into syslog, seems easy enough.

-Joe



On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:58:54 -0700
Sig Lange 
<
 >
 wrote:

> 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


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