# Looking for hints/tips on how to create a logger that sends to syslog

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/looking-for-hints-tips-on-how-to-create-a-logger-that-sends-to-syslog/2704>\
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**Created:** [August 23, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/looking-for-hints-tips-on-how-to-create-a-logger-that-sends-to-syslog/2704 "2013-08-23T17:58:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Dore](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/chris_dore/32/7592_2.png) [@Chris\_Dore](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Chris_Dore)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/looking-for-hints-tips-on-how-to-create-a-logger-that-sends-to-syslog/2704/1 "2013-08-23T17:58:00Z")

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I would like to create a logger that I can use to send certain messages to syslog (I don’t want all logging going to syslog, just some specific ones). My first attempt was to create a log4j logger with a SyslogAppender, however I eventually found that log4j-over-slf4j was causing me issues/conflicts. I don’t have any experience with slf4j so before I do too much education I thought I’d see if anyone had some tips on how to do what I’m after.

Thanks, Chris