[Repost] php log to own syslog file

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Fri Jan 21 09:33:53 PST 2005


Gerard Samuel wrote:

> Im trying to figure out how to setup FreeBSD 5.3 to log
> php events to its own log file via syslog.
> In /etc/syslog.conf, I added ->
> # php logs
> !httpd
> *.*                                             /var/log/php.log
>
> I created a empty file for the log ->
> gladiator# touch /var/log/php.log
> gladiator# ls -l /var/log/php*
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Jan 20 16:37 /var/log/php.log
>
> Then I HUPped syslogd ->
> gladiator# ps aux | grep syslogd
> root     277  0.0  0.2  1316  908  ??  Is    4:14PM   0:00.01
> /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
> gladiator# kill -HUP 277
>
> In my php script, Im using ->
> define_syslog_variables();
> openlog('TESTING', LOG_NDELAY, LOG_USER);
> syslog(LOG_INFO, $message);
> closelog();
>
> But nothing is being logged to the file.
> Am I doing something wrong on the FreeBSD side of things??
>
> Thanks


PHP as an Apache module?  IANAE, but wouldn't
you have to change log settings in httpd.conf?

Kevin Kinsey


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