#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Python syslog source code
#
# Public domain, by Christian Stigen Larsen
#
# This is especially neat for Windows users, who (I think) don't
# get any syslog module in the default python installation.
#
# See RFC3164 for more info -- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164
#
# Note that if you intend to send messages to remote servers, their
# syslogd must be started with -r to allow to receive UDP from
# the network.

import socket

# I'm a python novice, so I don't know if there are any
# better ways to define enums

FACILITY = {
	'kern': 0, 'user': 1, 'mail': 2, 'daemon': 3,
	'auth': 4, 'syslog': 5, 'lpr': 6, 'news': 7,
	'uucp': 8, 'cron': 9, 'authpriv': 10, 'ftp': 11,
	'local0': 16, 'local1': 17, 'local2': 18, 'local3': 19,
	'local4': 20, 'local5': 21, 'local6': 22, 'local7': 23,
}

LEVEL = {
	'emerg': 0, 'alert':1, 'crit': 2, 'err': 3,
	'warning': 4, 'notice': 5, 'info': 6, 'debug': 7
}

def syslog(message, level=LEVEL['notice'], facility=FACILITY['daemon'], host='localhost', port=514):
	sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
	data = '<%d>%s' % (level + (facility<<3), message)
	sock.sendto(data, (host, port))
	sock.close()

syslog('There were zwei peanuts walking down der strasse...', host='brit.ain')