When I tried to get rsyslog running with php I didn't face much problems. Anyways I want to share some things I noticed while getting it to work.

First of all ubuntu uses rsyslog already. Just a simple

and all syslog messages went directly into the database "syslog". Configure /etc/rsyslog.d/mysql.conf to insert this information into a remote machine.

Now let's get to php. You have the option to set:

This however does log all messages with

If you want to replace "php" with a custom message, you have to call

before any error happens. Because LOG_ODELAY is given, it won't connect to syslog unless any error happens, so one should be save to put this call at the top of your dispatcher file.

The final log message will look like that (254 is the process id):

Finally I wanted to log all messages created by agavi's logging system. Since I didn't found an existing AgaviSyslogLoggerAppender, I wrote one and put it up on a github-gist.

Have fun logging!

A friend of mine asked if I could add a new feature to MyQuests. Since it has svn-repository and is written in Lua, it wasn't that difficult.

I send the .patch to the maintainer, he added it.

Since last update it wasn't possible to use the admin menu in MyQuests correctly.

I send the .patch to the maintainer. He updated the svn version already.