Re: [MacPerl-Porters] syslogd

[Peter Prymmer <pvhp@best.com>]

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Chris Nandor wrote:

> I had been thinking about working with this to get a nice syslog for MacPerl.
> 
>     http://www.classicalguitar.net/brian/apps/syslogd/
> 
> But it is $20 and not open source.  This means that IMO it should not be
> bundled with MacPerl.  I just wonder if there are any thoughts on the
> matter, or if there is a better way to eventually get a working syslog with
> MacPerl.

It does look impressive.  I wonder about a crude server that is written in
perl with output going to a MacPerl STDOUT window?  Can you write a
background app in MacPerl?  Isn't there a MacPerl FAQ about writing cron? 
(Interestingly, the syslogd facility came up on the vmsperl list today
where the dependency of DBI on Sys::Syslog posed trouble that is glossed
over by re-writing Syslog.pm to essentially have a simple C<1;> statement
to ameliorate C<use>.)

BTW, In doing a cgi search of the MIT Info-Mac archive I stumbled across
two cases of a "curses" package, the first was a game but the second was
an implementation of libcurses - albeit targeted at Symantec Think C
I think.  I haven't checked it out yet (among other things I am quickly
running out of Mac disk space :-)

Peter Prymmer




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