[logback-user] Usage of syslog4j with log back

Hello, I am a new logback user and am using logback for my logging. I wanted to use syslog4j to natively log to syslog.(as I do not want to open up the udp port for logging into syslog). Can I use syslog4j as an appender to logback? If not, is there any other way of using logback to log into syslog without opening up the udp port i.e. using native unix sockets! Thanks and Best Regards Sumanth