Write to System Log VI - Mac OS X

[zkiss]

I am having trouble finding the messagess in the Console app. Can somebody help me how to locate them?

[johnsold · Accepted solution]

I have never used that VI but I tried a few things. 

I can find messages in System Log Queries >> All Messages or in Files >> system.log.

Those present chonological listings of messages from many sources. My message was "another message for warning" and it appears like this:

However, when the severity is set to Informational, no message appears in the Console log. Errors and Warnings are saved to system.log.

I could not find any reference to nierrorlog as described in the LV Help.  I suspect that that name may be used only on one OS.  The Help could be less ambiguous.

Lynn

[zkiss]

Thanks Lynn, I figured it out with your help. I would like to add that system.lg can be read only by an admin user.

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@johnsold wrote:

I have never used that VI but I tried a few things. 

 
What are you using instead? Just plain write to text file?

Zoli

[johnsold]

Zoli,

I never had any reason to log errors to something like system.log. Data usually gets written to TDMS files or text files.

Lynn