Folks,

I haven't yet done the research here by RTFS'ing, so I apologize in advance for uninformed posting… :-)

I'm looking at syslog-ng as a syslogd replacement in our shop.  I'd like to determine in advance if there is a reasonable way to run these in parallel.

In particular, are there supplied hooks to routines equivalent to syslog(3) in the C library?  I understand that I can shut down syslogd and bring up syslog-ng listening to /dev/log, and things will be transparent to production code.  I envision an environment where I have the RH syslogd listening to /dev/log, and syslog-ng listening to /dev/log-ng.  Using perl and C routines, can I integrate my production code with minimal alterations to selectively use the new facility?

Thanks for any advice,
rnd