[chef] Re: Logging to syslog

[Eric-Olivier Lamey < >]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Oliver Beattie 
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 wrote:
> I see from the documentation
> (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Configuration+Settings#ChefConfigurationSettings-logoutput)
> that it is possible to log to syslog, but the link that I guess is supposed
> to explain how to do so is broken. I'm afraid I'm not a Ruby person so,
> while I realise the config file is just Ruby and it's probably a simple task
> to do so, I'm not entirely sure how to do it without a pointer or two, and
> this is functionality I couldn't use Chef without (we have to have all our
> logs centralised, which obviously is fairly easy to take care of when using
> syslog).

  Hi,

  I had a look a while ago and had to dig a little bit to find the
solution. I don't have
  access to the system I configured right now but, if I remember correctly, 
you
  have to install the SyslogLogger gem and then modify /etc/chef/client.rb or
  server.rb to add:

require 'syslog_logger'
log_location SyslogLogger.new("chef-client")

  If you are using the supplied startup scripts for RedHat-base
distributions, please
  note that they insist on configuring the logger in
/etc/sysconfig/chef-{client,server}.
  You might have to manually modify the startup script for the logging to work
  as intended.