Jim Hofmeister wrote:

> I was involved in the development phase of some of the arpa products,
> and my recollection (don't quote me on this) was that we hacked up a
> subset of syslog() to support the bare minimum functionality we needed
> to get the ports done (for telnet as an example).  So I am suspect the
> syslog() you have found here is not a full blown - works as documeted
> version.  Second question about syslogd, no I have not seen one, but
> others on this list may have some input.

This is not rocket science, people.  The hacked syslog() calls merely
write to the calling process's $stdlist.  No more, no less.  We have
an active syslogd daemon on our machine (3rd party gizmo) and it never
sees the HP generated output.  HP's just writes the data to $stdlist.

Jeff