syslog

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

syslog — Genera un mensaje log de sistema

Descripción

syslog(int $priority, string $message): bool

syslog() genera un mensaje log que será distribuido por el logger del sistema.

Para información de como configurar un usuario definido como controlador del log, ver syslog.conf (5) del manual de Unix. Más información sobre los recursos y opciones de syslog pueden encontrarse en las páginas del manual de syslog (3) en entornos Unix.

Parámetros

priority

priority es una combinación del tipo y el nivel. Posibles valores:

**Prioridades **syslog()** (en orden descendente)**
Constante	Descripción
`LOG_EMERG`	sistema inservible
`LOG_ALERT`	se debe tomar acción de forma inmediata
`LOG_CRIT`	condiciones críticas
`LOG_ERR`	condiciones de error
`LOG_WARNING`	condiciones de alerta
`LOG_NOTICE`	condición normal, pero relevante
`LOG_INFO`	mensaje de información
`LOG_DEBUG`	mensaje de testeo

message

El mensaje a enviar a excepción de dos caracteres %m serán reemplazados con el mensaje de error (strerror) correspondiente con el valor presente de errno.

Valores devueltos

Devuelve true en caso de éxito o false en caso de error.

Ejemplos

Ejemplo #1 Uso de syslog()

<?php
// abre syslog, incluyendo el ID del proceso. También envia al
// log el error estándar y el mecanismo de logging
// definido por el usuario
openlog("myScriptLog", LOG_PID | LOG_PERROR, LOG_LOCAL0);

// algún código

if (authorized_client()) {
    // hace algo
} else {
    // Cliente no autorizado!
    // Se logea el intento
    $access = date("Y/m/d H:i:s");
    syslog(LOG_WARNING, "Cliente no autorizado: $access {$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']} ({$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']})");
}

closelog();
?>

Notas

En Windows NT, el servicio syslog es emulado usando el Event Log.

Nota:
El uso de LOG_LOCAL0 a través de LOG_LOCAL7 para el parámetro facility de openlog() no está disponible en Windows.

Ver también

openlog() - Open connection to system logger
closelog() - Cerrar conexión al log del sistema

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User Contributed Notes 16 notes

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james dot ellis at gmail dot com ¶

17 years ago

If anyone is wondering why their log messages are appearing in multiple log files, here is one answer applying to *nix systems:

If your syslog.conf looks like this (assuming you use LOG_LOCAL0 for web app logging) :

local0.info    /var/log/web/info.log

This will collect *all* messages of LOG_INFO level and higher, i.e everything except debug messages

Try this instead to ensure that only messages of the named log level go into the relevant log file:

local0.=info    /var/log/web/info.log

Additionally, you may like to add this to ensure your messages don't end up in generic log files like "messages"  "all" "syslog" and "debug":

local0.none    /var/log/messages
local0.none    /var/log/debug
etc

saves disk space among other things - more at "man syslog.conf"

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stevekamerman at gmail dot com ¶

6 years ago

This function sends messages in BSD Syslog RFC 3164 format (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164).

To see the raw messages being sent by PHP to the logging socket, first stop your syslog/rsylsog/ng-syslog service, then listen to the logging socket with the netcat-openbsd package:

nc -U -l /dev/log

Now, log something from PHP:

<?php
syslog(LOG_LOCAL1|LOG_INFO, "Test from PHP");
?>

You will see the rfc3164 output from netcat:

<142>Oct 24 14:32:51 php: Test from PHP

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OWM ¶

4 years ago

Syslog autodetects newline control characters and therefore splits the message by multiple lines. To prevent this behavior in PHP 7.3+ you can use undocumented (at this moment) ini setting:

<?php

ini_set('syslog.filter', 'raw');

# more info here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77913

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Antonio Lobato ¶

14 years ago

A word of warning; if you use openlog() to ready syslog() and your Apache threads accept multiple requests, you *must* call closelog() if Apache's error log is configured to write to syslog.  Failure to do so will cause Apache's error log to write to whatever facility/ident was used in openlog.

Example, in httpd.conf you have:

ErrorLog syslog:local7

and in php you do:

<?php
openlog("myprogram", 0, LOG_LOCAL0);
syslog("My syslog message");
?>

From here on out, this Apache thread will write ErrorLog to local0 and under the process name "myprogram" and not httpd!  Calling closelog() will fix this.

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rgagnon24 at gmail dot com ¶

5 years ago

This one had me going for a while when using LOG_ constants in another object, when developing on Windows, but deploying on Linux.

Windows evaluates some of the LOG_ constants to the same value, while LINUX does not.

The 8 constants and their differences on the platforms to be aware of:

Linux has these values as:
========================
LOG_EMERG = 0
LOG_ALERT = 1
LOG_CRIT = 2
LOG_ERR = 3
LOG_WARNING = 4
LOG_NOTICE = 5
LOG_INFO = 6
LOG_DEBUG = 7

While on Windows, you have:
==========================
LOG_EMERG = 1
LOG_ALERT = 1
LOG_CRIT = 1
LOG_ERR = 4
LOG_WARNING = 5
LOG_NOTICE = 6
LOG_INFO = 6
LOG_DEBUG = 6

So if you're setting LOG_WARNING in your code, Linux will use 4 as the priority while Windows will use 5.

This is not a bug in PHP on either platform, but a difference in the system header files that PHP compiles with.  Not really anything you can do, but be aware if you're wondering why your messages log at different priorities depending on the platform, this could be why.

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huangyg11 at gmail dot com ¶

9 years ago

For those who want to simultaneously write to multiple syslog facilities : 

syslog(LOG_INFO|LOG_LOCAL0, "message for local0");
syslog(LOG_INFO|LOG_LOCAL1, "message for local1");

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Anonymous ¶

3 years ago

There's no point to manually timestamp the message (as shown in docs' example) as all sane logging systems timestamp all entries by themselves.

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helly at php dot net ¶

17 years ago

If you are using syslog-ng and want errors send to syslog then use ini setting "error_log = syslog" and add something like the following to your syslog-ng.conf:

destination php { file("/var/log/php.log" owner(root) group(devel) perm(0620)); };
log { source(src); filter(f_php); destination(php); };

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antoine dot leverve dot EXT at zodiacaerospace dot com ¶

8 years ago

The documentation is incorrect when it says "Priorities (in descending order)", as the table that follows is actually in **ascending** order.

For example my output says:
LOG_ERR : 4
LOG_WARNING : 5
LOG_DEBUG : 6

An important difference, that caused me some pain!

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daniele dot patoner at biblio dot unitn dot it ¶

21 years ago

This work for me, to redirect  logs to a separate syslog file

put this line in your /etc/syslog.conf :

local0.debug   /var/log/php.log

Then restart syslogd:

/etc/init.d/syslog restart

php example:

<?php
define_syslog_variables();
openlog("TextLog", LOG_PID, LOG_LOCAL0);

$data = date("Y/m/d H:i:s");
syslog(LOG_DEBUG,"Messagge: $data");

closelog();
?>

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mavetju at chello dot nl ¶

23 years ago

With FreeBSD I can use: syslog(LOG_INFO,"test");



BSD/OS does not support this, I had to use the literal values for the priority (158: local3.info):

syslog(158,"test");

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gregj at pdxperts dot com ¶

21 years ago

The message string sent to the log file is limited to 500 characters.

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dpreece at paradise dot net dot nz ¶

22 years ago

To set up a custom log file via the syslog daemon (FreeBSD in this case)...

Add to /etc/syslog.conf a line that says all errors from the httpd process are to go to a file called (for example) /var/log/httpd-php.log

!httpd
*.*   {tab}   /var/log/httpd-php.log

Note the tab, being a tab character! Next create a blank file to be written to. I'm sure there are 1e+6 ways to do this, but I choose

# cat > httpd-php.log << EOF
? EOF

Finally find your syslog daemon and send it a sighup to inform it of the change:

# ps ax | grep syslogd
  133  ??  Ss     0:07.23 syslogd -s
# kill -1 133

Et voila! Php syslog calls will now arrive in /var/log/httpd-php.log

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bb at lb-data dot co dot at ¶

25 years ago

In Windows NT, use the following values of priority:

1 = error,

6 = info

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Torsten ¶

20 years ago

I had a problem trying to issue a syslog message with IIS 5.1 under Windows XP. The function call seemed to succeed, but the event viewer showed that no entry was made.
Finally I found out that the user account used for the webserver (IUSR_<Computername>) did not have enough permissions to issue syslog alerts. I changed this by adding this user to the Users group instead of only Guest.

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rcgraves+php at brandeis dot edu ¶

24 years ago

For the-header-file-enabled:



man 3 syslog defines the priorities, but not the integer values. For that you'll need to read your system header file.



Let's suppose I want to log an informational message in the mail log (which happens to be true). The man page tells me I want LOG_MAIL|LOG_INFO. So I look in /usr/include/sys/syslog.h and find (this happens to be Linux, your system could be different):



#define LOG_INFO        6       /* informational */

#define LOG_MAIL        (2<<3)  /* mail system */



2<<3 means shift 3 bits left, which means multiply by 8. So I want 2*8 + 6 = 22. syslog(22,"this message will appear in the mail log"); And indeed it does.

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