From 02c49d986b9bbf49a4770d5e40decab0aa0aeb97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sebastian=20Me=C3=9Fmer?= <mail@smessmer.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 03:27:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] daemonize() redirects logger to syslog

---
 daemon/daemonize.cpp | 5 ++++-
 daemon/daemonize.h   | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/daemon/daemonize.cpp b/daemon/daemonize.cpp
index 4e72c480..cc823249 100644
--- a/daemon/daemonize.cpp
+++ b/daemon/daemonize.cpp
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ namespace cpputils {
 
     //TODO Test daemonize()
 
-    void daemonize() {
+    void daemonize(const std::string &daemonName) {
             pid_t pid = fork();
             if (pid < 0) {
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ namespace cpputils {
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }
 
+            // Setup logging to syslog.
+            cpputils::logging::setLogger(spdlog::syslog_logger(daemonName, daemonName, LOG_PID));
+
             // Close out the standard file descriptors. The daemon can't use them anyhow.
             close(STDIN_FILENO);
             close(STDOUT_FILENO);
diff --git a/daemon/daemonize.h b/daemon/daemonize.h
index 5e7b142d..9fd9a351 100644
--- a/daemon/daemonize.h
+++ b/daemon/daemonize.h
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 #ifndef MESSMER_CPPUTILS_DAEMON_DAEMONIZE_H
 #define MESSMER_CPPUTILS_DAEMON_DAEMONIZE_H
 
+#include <string>
+
 namespace cpputils {
-    void daemonize();
+    void daemonize(const std::string &daemonName);
 }
 
 #endif