From: david20@alpha1.axp.mdx.ac.uk
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 12:16 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: syslog client

In article <orA23cuwK$LG@eisner.encompasserve.org>, kuhrt@encompasserve.org (Marty Kuhrt) writes:
>Does anyone have pointers to where I could get some C code
>to do a syslog client for Alpha VMS?  Multinet has a syslog
>daemon that can be started and used to receive syslog stuff.  
>I'd like to have programs be able to send stuff to it from 
>a C program.  Also, if I had syslog stuff I could get closer 
>to finishing a Big Brother server for Alpha VMS. 
>
>(aside 1, see bb4.com for Big Brother info, a highly configurable
>freeware web based system monitoring utility)
>(aside 2, I posted this on the multinet news group a couple of days 
>ago and no one has responded)
>
>Thanks,
>Marty

There is already a public domain SYSLOG daemon for VMS (both VAX and Alpha)
which works with UCX / DEC TCPIP Services (written in C).
I can't recall where I got it from but you can pick it up from 

ftp://ftp.mdx.ac.uk/vms/syslogd.zip


David Webb
VMS and Unix team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University