[ILUG] Syslog/Perl Q

[John P . Looney]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:22:38PM +0100, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> > Usage: Sys::Syslog::_PATH_LOG() at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/Sys/Syslog.pm line 277.
> Because whenever you call _PATH_LOG (or something else does, given its
> leading _ name, it's called wrongly, hence the usage message).

 Thanks to the good friend of people that don't know much "empirical
debugging", I've ascertained that replacing &_PATH_LOG with "/dev/log", all
is well. If anyone can replicate that bug in perl 5.6 Sys:Syslog package,
and could be arsed to post a bug, fire away.

Kate

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