[ale] writing to logfiles

[arnold at infographix.infographix.com (Arnold D. Robbins)]

> I'm writing a c program to do some things I should be doing in bash but =
> I don't want to spend the time to learn all the commands.  One thing I =
> need to know how to do is write an error string to the files maintained =
> by the syslog deamon.  The program I'm writing will run in the =
> background un attended and I need some where to record errors. =20

Check out syslog(3).

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