syslog(3) issues

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Attilio, good day.

Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:35:24AM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> I was trying to use syslog(3) in a port application that uses
> threading , having all of them at the LOG_CRIT level. What I see is
> that when the logging gets massive (1000 entries) I cannot find some
> items within the /var/log/messages (I know because I started stamping
> also some sort of message ID in order to see what is going on). The
> missing items are in the order of 25% of what really be there.
> 
> Someone has a good idea on where I can start verifying for my syslogd
> system?

This is almost obvious, but had you tried running syslogd with flag '-d'
that gives verbose information about incoming stuff and whether it will
be logged to some file(s).
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