1Agent::Priorities(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Agent::Priorities(3)
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6 Log::Agent::Priorities - conversion between syslog priorities and
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10 Not intended to be used directly
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13 This package contains routines to convert between syslog priorities and
14 logging levels: level_from_prio("crit") yields 2, and
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17 Here are the known priorities (which may be abbreviated to the first 2
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23 none -1 NONE (special, see text)
24 emergency 0 (emerg, panic) EMERG
25 alert 1 ALERT
26 critical 2 (crit) CRIT
27 error 3 (err) ERROR
28 warning 4 WARN
29 notice 6 NOTICE
30 info 8 INFO
31 debug 10 DEBUG
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33 The values between parenthesis show the traditional syslog priority
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37 The Export column lists the symbolic constants defined by this package.
38 They can be imported selectively, or alltogether via the ":LEVELS" tag,
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43 The special token "none" may be used (and spelled out fully) on special
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48 Anywhere where a priority is expected, one may specify a number taken
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50 mapping outlined above is not satisfactory, it can be redefined by
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61 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
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64 Log::Agent(3), Log::Agent::Logger(3).
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