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 , 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