Feature request: syslog appender about timbre HOT 11 CLOSED

I'm going to take a shot at this. I'll be using timbre and I'd like to contribute. My time is extremely limited but if I can just leverage the aforementioned brolog library implementation seems as it will be very easy.

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Hey Daniel! Sure, would be happy to take a PR that adds a Syslog appender :-)

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Cool! I've added this to my todo list.

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Great, just ping me if you have any questions along the way. Cheers!

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Any progress on this @danielsz ?

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@nicferrier Ah, no, never got to it, sorry. :(

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+1 for syslog support, unless there is another way to get Papertrail to listen to a Heroku app.

edit: nevermind, using the default config started working. I hereby rescind my +1.

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@danielflower what do you mean by "using the default config"? I also want to log to syslog from timbre.

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I think I meant just logging to the console. I never got it to log to syslog sorry.

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Just throwing out there that writing a Timbre appender for https://github.com/joshrotenberg/brolog looks like it should be quite straight forward + potentially a good exercise for folks wanting to get more familiar with how Timbre appenders work.

There's an example appender that you can use as a starting point at https://github.com/ptaoussanis/timbre/blob/master/src/taoensso/timbre/appenders/example.clj

An appender's basically just a map with some config keys and a (fn [data-map]) -> ?output, both of which are described at https://github.com/ptaoussanis/timbre/blob/93044a4201ebcae5fc2c34c07ee19d007b73f671/src/taoensso/timbre.cljx#L61

PR welcome if anyone feels like taking a stab at this.

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Not that the syslog API is changing much, but how do you feel about using a library that hasn't been touched in several years? I'm assuming that's okay?

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