In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a question: > >When should syslog.closelog() be called? I have a daemon that spends >most of its time asleep and quiet, but writes messages to the mail log >when active. Should I open the log at the start and keep it open until >the program closes? This seems much simpler than issuing three >commands everytime I want to write to the log. > >The program will essentially be running constantly. Is having the log >constantly "open" a problem? What happens if the program crashes or is >killed without a closelog()? > >Jeff >
In your terms, it's entirely safe to leave open the handle to syslog. The operating system takes responsibility for cleanup on shutdown of your application. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
