1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" 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 6.8 (Berkeley) 7/27/91 33.\" 34.Dd July 27, 1991 35.Dt LOGGER 1 36.Os BSD 4.3 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm logger 39.Nd make entries in the system log 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm logger 42.Op Fl is 43.Op Fl f Ar file 44.Op Fl p Ar pri 45.Op Fl t Ar tag 46.Op Ar message ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Nm Logger 49provides a shell command interface to the 50.Xr syslog 3 51system log module. 52.Pp 53Options: 54.Pp 55.Bl -tag -width "message" 56.It Fl i 57Log the process id of the logger process 58with each line. 59.It Fl s 60Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 61.It Fl f Ar file 62Log the specified file. 63.It Fl p Ar pri 64Enter the message with the specified priority. 65The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 66pair. 67For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 68.Ar info Ns rmational 69level in the 70.Ar local3 71facility. 72The default is ``user.notice.'' 73.It Fl t Ar tag 74Mark every line in the log with the specified 75.Ar tag . 76.It Ar message 77Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 78.Fl f 79flag is not 80provided, standard input is logged. 81.El 82.Pp 83The 84.Nm logger 85utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 86.Sh EXAMPLES 87.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 88logger System rebooted 89 90logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 91.Ed 92.Sh SEE ALSO 93.Xr syslog 3 , 94.Xr syslogd 8 95.Sh STANDARDS 96The 97.Nm logger 98command is expected to be 99.St -p1003.2 100compatible. 101