From ef5f9c598bb09f89efca4f45b3ced10925532e67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lissav <lissav@8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:47:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]  Change to using logger for syslog instead of perl interface

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@2003 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd
---
 perl-xCAT/xCAT/MsgUtils.pm | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/MsgUtils.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/MsgUtils.pm
index b7b071ea9..6651b3a15 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/MsgUtils.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/MsgUtils.pm
@@ -280,9 +280,15 @@ sub message
 
             # If they want this msg to also go to syslog, do that now
             eval {
-                openlog("xCAT", '', 'local4');
-                syslog("err", $rsp);
-                closelog();
+                #openlog("xCAT", '', 'local4'); 
+                #syslog("err", $rsp);
+                #closelog();
+                # switched to logger due to hangs using Perl interface
+                # when syslog not running
+                `logger -p local4.err -t xcat $rsp`;
+                if ( $? != 0) {
+                  print $stdouterrf "Error using Syslog/n";  
+                }     
             };
         }
     }