README

netsyslog enables you to construct syslog messages and send them (via UDP) to a remote syslog server directly from Python. Unlike other syslog modules it allows you to set the metadata (e.g. time, host name, program name, etc.) yourself, giving you full control over the contents of the UDP packets that it creates.

netsyslog was initially developed for the Hack Saw project, where it was used to read log messages from a file and inject them into a network of syslog servers, whilst maintaining the times and hostnames recorded in the original messages.

The module also allows you to send log messages that contain the current time, local hostname and calling program name (i.e. the typical requirement of a logging package) to one or more syslog servers.

The format of the UDP packets sent by netsyslog adheres closely to that defined in RFC 3164.

Installation

$ python setup.py install

Usage

$ python
Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 30 2005, 21:51:10)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>> import netsyslog
>>> import syslog
>>> logger = netsyslog.Logger()
>>> logger.add_host("somehost.mydomain.com")
>>> logger.add_host("otherhost.mydomain.com")
>>> logger.log(syslog.LOG_USER, syslog.LOG_NOTICE, "Hey, it works!", pid=True)

The API docs are also available over on the (old) SourceForge site.