I did everything as you did, however, when start the postmaster,
I got following:
FATAL 1:	'syslog' is not a valid option name.

Jie

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Conway [mailto:mail@joeconway.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:27 AM
To: Jie Liang
Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org'; pgsql-sql
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Syslog


Jie Liang wrote:
> I did, it didn't work.
> 
> Jie Liang

Works for me. Did you change postgresql.conf? Here's what mine looks like.

#
#       Syslog
#
# requires ENABLE_SYSLOG
syslog = 1                      # range 0-2
syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
syslog_ident = 'postgres'

 From the online docs:
SYSLOG (integer)

     PostgreSQL allows the use of syslog for logging. If this option is 
set to 1, messages go both to syslog and the standard output. A setting 
of 2 sends output only to syslog. (Some messages will still go to the 
standard output/error.) The default is 0, which means syslog is off. 
This option must be set at server start.

     To use syslog, the build of PostgreSQL must be configured with the 
--enable-syslog option.


See:
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/runtime-config.h
tml

Joe


Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:13:49 -0800
Jie Liang <jie@stbernard.com>
Re: Syslog
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 20:13, Jie Liang wrote:
> I did everything as you did, however, when start the postmaster,
> I got following:
> FATAL 1:	'syslog' is not a valid option name.

Then you haven't configured postgresql with --enable-syslog.  (That
message comes from src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c, if you want
confirmation.)

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14 Mar 2002 21:17:05 +0000
Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Re: [SQL] Syslog
On 14 Mar 2002 21:17:05 +0000
"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 20:13, Jie Liang wrote:
> > I did everything as you did, however, when start the postmaster,
> > I got following:
> > FATAL 1:	'syslog' is not a valid option name.
> 
> Then you haven't configured postgresql with --enable-syslog.  (That
> message comes from src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c, if you want
> confirmation.)
Hackers: Is there any reason to NOT make --enable-syslog the default
any more? 

I.E. can we change the sense of it to be --disable-syslog and have
USE_SYSLOG defined by default? 


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Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:35:23 -0600
Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Re: [SQL] Syslog
Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> Hackers: Is there any reason to NOT make --enable-syslog the default
> any more? 
> I.E. can we change the sense of it to be --disable-syslog and have
> USE_SYSLOG defined by default? 

I thought we'd agreed to do that already; at least Peter had indicated
he planned to do it.  I guess he didn't get around to it for 7.2.

			regards, tom lane

Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:03:45 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: [SQL] Syslog 