1.\" $NetBSD: logger.1,v 1.15 2012/05/13 17:08:31 njoly Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)logger.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 31.\" 32.Dd April 26, 2012 33.Dt LOGGER 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm logger 37.Nd make entries in the system log 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl cins 41.Op Fl d Ar SD 42.Op Fl f Ar file 43.Op Fl m Ar msgid 44.Op Fl p Ar pri 45.Op Fl t Ar tag 46.Op Ar message ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Nm 49provides a shell command interface to the 50.Xr syslog 3 51system log module. 52.Pp 53Options: 54.Pp 55.Bl -tag -width "messageXX" 56.It Fl c 57Log to console 58.Dv ( LOG_CONS ) . 59.It Fl d Ar sd 60Log this in the structured data (SD) field. 61.Po 62.Ar sd 63has to be passed as one argument and will require careful quoting when used from 64the shell. 65.Pc 66.It Fl f Ar file 67Log the specified file. 68.It Fl i 69Log the process id of the logger process 70with each line 71.Dv ( LOG_PID ) . 72.It Fl m Ar msgid 73The MSGID used for the message. 74.It Fl n 75Open log file immediately 76.Dv ( LOG_NDELAY ) . 77.It Fl p Ar pri 78Enter the message with the specified priority. 79The priority may be specified numerically or as a 80.Dq facility.level 81pair. 82For example, 83.Dq \-p local3.info 84logs the message(s) as 85.Ar info Ns rmational 86level in the 87.Ar local3 88facility. 89The default is 90.Dq user.notice . 91.It Fl s 92Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log 93.Dv ( LOG_PERROR ) . 94.It Fl t Ar tag 95Mark every line in the log with the specified 96.Ar tag . 97.It Ar message 98Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 99.Fl f 100flag is not provided, standard input is logged. 101.El 102.Sh EXIT STATUS 103.Ex -std logger 104.Sh EXAMPLES 105.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 106logger System rebooted 107 108logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 109.Ed 110.Sh SEE ALSO 111.Xr syslog 3 , 112.Xr syslogd 8 113.Sh STANDARDS 114The 115.Nm 116utility conforms to 117.St -p1003.2-92 . 118