NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
makes entries in the system log.
It provides a shell command interface to the
system log module.
Options:
- i
Log the process id of the logger process
with each line.
- s
Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log.
- file
Log the specified file.
- pri
Enter the message with the specified priority.
The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level''
pair.
For example, ``-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as
level in the
facility.
The default is ``user.notice.''
- tag
Mark every line in the log with the specified
- sock
Write to socket as specified with
instead of builtin syslog routines.
- d
Use a datagram instead of a stream connection to this socket.
- --
End the argument list. This is to allow the
to start with a hyphen (-).
- message
Write the message to log; if not specified, and the
flag is not
provided, standard input is logged.
The
utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
Valid facility names are: auth, authpriv (for security information of
a sensitive nature), cron, daemon, ftp, kern, lpr, mail, news,
security (deprecated synonym for auth), syslog, user, uucp, and local0
to local7, inclusive.
Valid level names are):
alert, crit, debug, emerg, err, error (deprecated synonym for err),
info, notice, panic (deprecated synonym for emerg), warning,
warn (deprecated synonym for warning).
For the priority order and intended purposes of these levels, see
syslog(3)
EXAMPLES
logger System rebooted
logger -p local0.notice -t HOSTIDM -f /dev/idmc
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
The
command is expected to be
compatible.
AVAILABILITY
The logger command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.