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Hi there Stackoverflow hackers! I have a very minor case of serious problem, or misunderstanding between me, and the C syslog() function. The code compiles just fine, and I can see its doing its "dummy job" (pinging 8.8.8.8), but the defined log just does not append. I am completly puzzled by this, and have no idea what could be wrong. Already SMAO (Searched My Ass Off - trying to popularize that) but just can't get it working properly. Code here: #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <errno.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <syslog.h> #include <string.h> // Application settings # TODO: import these from a .ini file #define WORKDIR "/var/run/management" #define LOGDIR "/var/log/management" #define LOGFILE "/var/log/management.log" #define SCRIPTDIR "/var/spool/management" #define PIDFILE "/var/run/management/daemon.pid" int main(void) { printf("Management Daemon\nInitializing..."); pid_t pid, sid; setlogmask(LOG_UPTO (LOG_NOTICE)); openlog(LOGFILE, LOG_CONS | LOG_PID | LOG_NDELAY, LOG_LOCAL1); syslog(LOG_NOTICE, "Management Daemon started by User %d", getuid()); closelog(); printf("Done.\nForking...\n"); pid = fork(); if(pid < 0) { printf("Fork failed! Exiting...\n"); // TODO: syslog facility syslog(LOG_EMERG, "Forking failed, exiting."); closelog(); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } if(pid > 0) { FILE *pidfile; pidfile = fopen(PIDFILE, "w"); fprintf(pidfile, "%d\n", pid); fclose(pidfile); printf("PID written to %s\nUsing log file %s\nGoing silent...\n", PIDFILE, LOGFILE); // TODO: syslog facility openlog(LOGFILE, LOG_CONS | LOG_PID | LOG_NDELAY, LOG_LOCAL1); syslog(LOG_NOTICE, "Fork returned with valid PID: %d. PID file: %s", pid, PIDFILE); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } umask(0); sid = setsid(); if(sid <

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