Reading syslog output on a Mac

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arigreen picture arigreen · Dec 19, 2008 · Viewed 79.1k times · Source

I have a program that was written for linux and I am trying to build and run it on my MacOS 10.5 machine. The program builds and runs without problem, however it makes many calls to syslog. I know that syslogd is running on my mac, however I can't seem to find where my syslog calls are output to.

The syslog calls are of the form

syslog (LOG_WARNING, "Log message");

Any idea where I might find my log output?

Answer

maerics picture maerics · Jan 24, 2013

/var/log/system.log

You can monitor it easily using tail -f /var/log/system.log

See also the "logger" (man logger) and "syslog" (man syslog).

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