Logging to syslog (by unbound, nsd, etc.) disappearing in a black hole

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 15, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
> Now, that says that syslog messages also end up in Unified Logging. What it doesn’t say how for instance old style messages for facility mail with level notice end up there. Or with facility daemon with level info. So, how to get these out is still a riddle.

They show up in unified logging. I found reading through the various manpages to be helpful - and there's an old WWDC video that you might find interesting: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/721/ 

> Why did Apple leave all the ASL stuff in place if it isn’t functional anymore? It’s still there in Mojave. Why did they not offer a decent compatibility? Afraid people would not move to OS-specific log commands? Sigh.

Stuff compiled against previous versions of Mac OS X continues to work using the 'old' stuff (ie, if you built your own postfix and then upgraded your OS - it would still log the way it had done previously). I had a bunch of syslog.conf stuff that I moved to asl.conf that I now just don't have (or have half-replaced with use of the 'log' command). I find using 'log' to find logs much worse than using text-processing tools on text files - but we have to work with what we get from Apple.

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Daniel J. Luke