why write to /var/log and not use syslog

[cJ]

wicd writes to log files in /var/log and performs log file rotation.
I think that this feature is unnecessary : it should delegate the work to the syslog.
It would reduce the code size, and allow further configuration of the logging.

Date prepending of log messages should be togglable, because some syslogs do it automatically.

import syslog
syslog.openlog("wicd")

syslog.syslog("wicd initializing...")

syslog.closelog()