Starting mongod with --syslog generates the following.
Aug 3 13:14:55 grapevine mongod.27017: Fri Aug 3 13:14:55 [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed
Aug 3 13:14:55 grapevine mongod.27017: Fri Aug 3 13:14:55 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017
Aug 3 13:14:55 grapevine mongod.27017: Fri Aug 3 13:14:55 [websvr] admin web console waiting for connections on port 28017
- prepending timestamp should be disabled if mongod is started with --syslog
- LL_SEVERE should probably map to LOG_EMERG instead of LOG_CRIT ..???
- should log process PID and should log to console if logging to syslogd fails