[chef] Re: Re: Logging to syslog

[KC Braunschweig < >]

Best info I've seen seems to be in tickets:

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-273
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1985

Going to be trying this myself soon. Also, you may be interested in
the splunk handler, which I want to play with after syslog is working:

https://github.com/adamhjk/chef_handler_splunk

Please add your experience to the wiki if you get it working.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Eric-Olivier Lamey 
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 wrote:
> 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.
>