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syslogd offers some potential for logging certain system events - the
things that could/should be logged outside of any application logging that
might have been added by a developer. Unfortunately syslog's
documentation is thin and finding out which QNX utilities and system
processes make use of syslog is quite difficult.

logger has added to a number of scripts so that start/stop info can be
traced. dumper is run so that crash info is available if this type of
event occurs. My concern is for the events that might occur in between
the above extremes. An example of the in betweeners might be 'Domain
Errors' that can occur during math processing. Or some abnormal
termination that doesn't trigger a dump.

Does anyone have a list of or know which QNX utilities and processes have
been built to make use of syslogd? Is syslog'ing as implemented in QNX4
viewed as being useful or not?

Gord

To my knowledge it's only used by the TCP/IP.

QNX4 application usually make use of the kernel trace buffer ( traceinfo )

Things like "domain error" are usually never logged, no more then when a
command like sin runs out of memory.

To my knowledge it's only used by the TCP/IP.

QNX4 application usually make use of the kernel trace buffer (
traceinfo )

Things like "domain error" are usually never logged, no more then when a
command like sin runs out of memory.



Thanks Mario!

It looks like the tracelogger series of utilities is better suited to
providing the info I am looking for, as the system managers generate trace
events as part of their operation. Configuring traceinfo to provide
useable data will be the challenge...

Gord

Why?