The EventLog library aims to be a replacement of the simple syslog() API provided on UNIX systems. The major difference between EventLog and syslog is that EventLog tries to add structure to messages. Where you had a simple non-structrured string in syslog() you have a combination of description and tag/value pairs. EventLog provides an interface to build, format and output an event record. The exact format and output method can be customized by the administrator via a configuration file. Installation ------------ Installing this library is quite straightforward as it does not depend on anything but libc. First grab your copy of the library. It is a tarball named eventlog-x.x.x.x.tar.gz where x.x.x.x is the library revision. tar xvfz eventlog-x.x.x.x.tar.gz cd eventlog-x.x.x.x ./configure make && make install If you want to package the library or move the binaries to another system, you can use the DESTDIR argument to 'make install' like this: make DESTDIR=/tmp/staging install which will use the /tmp/staging directory as root and copy all files beneath as it were a real system. Copyright --------- EventLog is distributed under the terms of a BSD style license, for details see the file COPYING.