Syslogging alerts?

[Chip Seraphine]

I have a kludgey alert system in place-- I define a class ("complain"), 
which causes a shellscript to kick off that analyzes $CFALLCLASSES and 
generates appropriate notifications (turning on lights in NMS, sending 
out emails/pages, etc).  This works fine, but seems like it should not 
be neccessary given that cfengine supports an "alerts:'"section. 
Unfortunately, I haven't seen a good way to get an alert to go to 
syslog instead of stdout-- just ugly hacks like redirecting cfengine 
output.  The syslog() option in control: seems to be ignored by 
alerts...  Am I missing something?

If not, then maybe we could put that down as a feature request-- an 
option that can be added to alerts that would allow you to send alert 
messages to syslog (at a specific priority) so that my network 
monitoring system can handle it.  Or, at the least, send a copy of the 
alert to syslog if Syslog( on ) is set....