How to configure logging to syslog in Python?
I can't get my head around Python's logging module. My needs are very simple: I just want to log everything to syslog. After reading documentation I came up with this simple test script: import logging import logging.handlers my_logger = logging.getLogger('MyLogger') my_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler() my_logger.addHandler(handler) my_logger.debug('this is debug') my_logger.critical('this is critical') But this script does not produce any log records in syslog. What's wrong? Change the line to this: handler = SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log') This works