[Mon-devel] Re: Socket-related prolem running mon on Solaris

[Ed R. <er...@pa...>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Alex David Shadrach Hooper wrote:
> Pulled from Ed Ravin's mail (Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:21:59AM -0400):
> > 
> >     229
> >     230 setlogsock('unix')
> >     231     if grep /^ $^O $/xo, ("linux", "openbsd", "freebsd", "netbsd");
> >     232
> >     233 openlog ("mon", "cons,pid", $CF{"SYSLOG_FACILITY"});
> > 
> > And do something with the setlogsock() that's appropriate for Solaris
> > and/or the way you have syslog set up there.
> > 
> 
> Ah, yes. I should have tried all the possibles listed in the Sys::Syslog
> manpage before posting; 'stream' seems to work nicely. Thanks very much.

Sounds like we should add another couple of lines to Mon just before
the openlog() call above:

    setlogsock('stream')
        if grep /^ $^O $/xo, ("solaris");

I've been wondering for a while if this should be a config file parameter.