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### 18.2 Submitting Syslog Messages

The GNU C Library provides functions to submit messages to the Syslog facility:

These functions only work to submit messages to the Syslog facility on the same system. To submit a message to the Syslog facility on another system, use the socket I/O functions to write a UDP datagram to the `syslog` UDP port on that system. See Sockets.