Redirecting standard output to syslog

Question

I\'m planning to package OpenTibia Server for Debian. One of the things I want to do is add startup via /etc/init.d and daemonization of the otserv

Answer 1

Not sure whether a straight "C" answer suffices; but in "C" you can use underlying stdio features to plug the (FILE*) directly into syslog calls, without an intervening "logger" process. Check out http://mischasan.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/redirecting-stderr-to-syslog/