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. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" @(#)logger.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 29.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/logger/logger.1,v 1.4.2.8 2003/05/25 20:06:57 brueffer Exp $ 30.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/logger/logger.1,v 1.3 2006/02/17 19:39:09 swildner Exp $ 31.\" 32.Dd June 6, 1993 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 46Ais 41.Op Fl f Ar file 42.Op Fl h Ar host 43.Op Fl p Ar pri 44.Op Fl t Ar tag 45.Op Ar message ... 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Nm 49utility provides a shell command interface to the 50.Xr syslog 3 51system log module. 52.Pp 53The following options are available: 54.Bl -tag -width indent 55.It Fl 4 56Force 57.Nm 58to use IPv4 addresses only. 59.It Fl 6 60Force 61.Nm 62to use IPv6 addresses only. 63.It Fl A 64By default, 65.Nm 66tries to send the message to only one address, 67even if the host has more than one A or AAAA record. 68If this option is specified, 69.Nm 70tries to send the message to all addresses. 71.It Fl i 72Log the process id of the logger process 73with each line. 74.It Fl s 75Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 76.It Fl f Ar file 77Log the specified file. 78.It Fl h Ar host 79Send the message to the remote system 80.Ar host 81instead of logging it locally. 82.It Fl p Ar pri 83Enter the message with the specified priority. 84The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 85pair. 86For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 87.Ar info Ns rmational 88level in the 89.Ar local3 90facility. 91The default is ``user.notice.'' 92.It Fl t Ar tag 93Mark every line in the log with the specified 94.Ar tag . 95.It Ar message 96Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 97.Fl f 98flag is not 99provided, standard input is logged. 100.El 101.Sh EXIT STATUS 102.Ex -std 103.Sh EXAMPLES 104.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 105logger System rebooted 106 107logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 108.Ed 109.Sh SEE ALSO 110.Xr syslog 3 , 111.Xr syslogd 8 112.Sh STANDARDS 113The 114.Nm 115command is expected to be 116.St -p1003.2 117compatible. 118