1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)logger.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/logger/logger.1,v 1.4.2.8 2003/05/25 20:06:57 brueffer Exp $ 34.\" 35.Dd June 6, 1993 36.Dt LOGGER 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm logger 40.Nd make entries in the system log 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl 46Ais 44.Op Fl f Ar file 45.Op Fl h Ar host 46.Op Fl p Ar pri 47.Op Fl t Ar tag 48.Op Ar message ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm 52utility provides a shell command interface to the 53.Xr syslog 3 54system log module. 55.Pp 56The following options are available: 57.Bl -tag -width indent 58.It Fl 4 59Force 60.Nm 61to use IPv4 addresses only. 62.It Fl 6 63Force 64.Nm 65to use IPv6 addresses only. 66.It Fl A 67By default, 68.Nm 69tries to send the message to only one address, 70even if the host has more than one A or AAAA record. 71If this option is specified, 72.Nm 73tries to send the message to all addresses. 74.It Fl i 75Log the process id of the logger process 76with each line. 77.It Fl s 78Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 79.It Fl f Ar file 80Log the specified file. 81.It Fl h Ar host 82Send the message to the remote system 83.Ar host 84instead of logging it locally. 85.It Fl p Ar pri 86Enter the message with the specified priority. 87The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 88pair. 89For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 90.Ar info Ns rmational 91level in the 92.Ar local3 93facility. 94The default is ``user.notice.'' 95.It Fl t Ar tag 96Mark every line in the log with the specified 97.Ar tag . 98.It Ar message 99Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 100.Fl f 101flag is not 102provided, standard input is logged. 103.El 104.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 105.Ex -std 106.Sh EXAMPLES 107.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 108logger System rebooted 109 110logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 111.Ed 112.Sh SEE ALSO 113.Xr syslog 3 , 114.Xr syslogd 8 115.Sh STANDARDS 116The 117.Nm 118command is expected to be 119.St -p1003.2 120compatible. 121