## `pysyslog.py`

A UDP server listens at 0.0.0.0:514 for syslog messages.

```
import logging
import socketserver

host = "0.0.0.0"
port = 514
mfmt = '%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s:%(pathname)s:%(lineno)d:%(message)s'
dfmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
logfile = 'syslogmsg.log'

logging.basicConfig(
    level=logging.INFO,
    format=mfmt,
    datefmt=dfmt,
    filename=logfile,
    filemode='w'
)

class SyslogUDPHandler(socketserver.DatagramRequestHandler):

    def handle(self):
        data = self.request[0].decode('utf-8')
        print(f'{self.client_address[0]}: {data}')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        print(f'UDPServer is listening on {host}:{port}')
        server = socketserver.UDPServer((host, port), SyslogUDPHandler)
        server.serve_forever(poll_interval=0.5)
    except (IOError, SystemExit):
        raise
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print ("Crtl+C Pressed. Shutting down.")
```

---

## `syslogmsg_gen.py`

Send syslog message to local syslog server via 127.0.0.1:514

```Python
import logging
import logging.handlers

host = "127.0.0.1"
port = 514
mfmt = '%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s:%(pathname)s:%(lineno)d:%(message)s'
dfmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
logfile = 'syslogmsg.log'

fh = logging.FileHandler(logfile, mode='w')
fh.setLevel(logging.INFO)
fh.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(mfmt))

dh = logging.handlers.DatagramHandler(host, port)
dh.setLevel(logging.INFO)
dh.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(mfmt))

logger = logging.getLogger('simple_ex')
logger.addHandler(fh)
logger.addHandler(dh)

logger.debug   ('Debug    message')
logger.info    ('Info     message')
logger.warning ('Warn     message')
logger.error   ('Error    message')
logger.critical('Critical message')
```

## Error:

```
Exception has occurred: UnicodeDecodeError
'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd7 in position 381: invalid continuation byte
  File "C:\pysyslog.py", line 21, in handle
    data = self.request[0].decode('utf-8')
  File "C:\pysyslog.py", line 28, in <module>
    server.serve_forever(poll_interval=0.5)
```