Redirecting standard output to syslog

Question

I\'m planning to package OpenTibia Server for Debian. One of the things I want to do is add startup via /etc/init.d and daemonization of the otserv

Answer 1

I just wrote some code that will do this. It's using ASL instead of syslog, and it's using kevents, so you may need to port it to different APIs for your system (syslog instead of ASL and poll/select instead of kevent)

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinit/tree/launchd/console_redirect.c

Furthermore, I basically added this to libsystem_asl on Mountain Lion. Check out the man page for asl_log_descriptor.

Example:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

int main() {
    asl_log_descriptor(NULL, NULL, ASL_LEVEL_INFO, STDOUT_FILENO, ASL_LOG_DESCRIPTOR_WRITE);
    asl_log_descriptor(NULL, NULL, ASL_LEVEL_NOTICE, STDERR_FILENO, ASL_LOG_DESCRIPTOR_WRITE);
    fprintf(stdout, "This is written to stdout which will be at log level info.");
    fprintf(stderr, "This is written to stderr which will be at log level notice.");
    return 0;
}