I am looking for a small lightweight logging system in c++. I have found some existing frameworks but I don\'t need all of their features at this point in time. I primarily
If you don't have size limitations on the project and you expect it to live a long time, I would suggest looking at Apache Log4cxx. It's not a small library, but it supports just about everything you ever wanted (including some things you didn't even knew you wanted) in logging, and it's portable.
In any larger project sooner or later you'll want your logging solution to do more than a "small logger class", so indeed why reinvent the wheel.