[Mono-list] Diagnostic Messages

[Lawrence Pit]

> The one downside with using `syslog' is that you wouldn't see the
> messages from inside GDB when debugging under GDB.  You would instead
> need to have a different terminal open to view the contents of the
> system logfile.  (At least, the only way I currently know to view the
> output of `syslog' is to `tail -f /var/log/message' as root, which is
> undesirable for multi-user installations.)

Afaik, you can write syslog entries to any file you like, including the
console. However, root has to set this up, which is a drawback.

> So I'm not sure if `syslog' is a better solution.  However, I don't know
> much about `syslog' either, so I'm interested in hearing more.  However,
> it seems that `System.Diagnostics.EventLog' and related classes would
> probably be a closer fit to `syslog' than the `Trace' and `Debug'
> classes.

I think you're right about that.

For unix systems I think you have to explicitely add your own trace listener
to the code.


Greets,
Lawrence