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.\" 31.Dd June 6, 1993 32.Dt LOGGER 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm logger 36.Nd make entries in the system log 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl 46Ais 40.Op Fl f Ar file 41.Op Fl h Ar host 42.Op Fl p Ar pri 43.Op Fl t Ar tag 44.Op Ar message ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48utility provides a shell command interface to the 49.Xr syslog 3 50system log module. 51.Pp 52The following options are available: 53.Bl -tag -width indent 54.It Fl 4 55Force 56.Nm 57to use IPv4 addresses only. 58.It Fl 6 59Force 60.Nm 61to use IPv6 addresses only. 62.It Fl A 63By default, 64.Nm 65tries to send the message to only one address, 66even if the host has more than one A or AAAA record. 67If this option is specified, 68.Nm 69tries to send the message to all addresses. 70.It Fl i 71Log the process id of the logger process 72with each line. 73.It Fl s 74Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 75.It Fl f Ar file 76Log the specified file. 77.It Fl h Ar host 78Send the message to the remote system 79.Ar host 80instead of logging it locally. 81.It Fl p Ar pri 82Enter the message with the specified priority. 83The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 84pair. 85For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 86.Ar info Ns rmational 87level in the 88.Ar local3 89facility. 90The default is ``user.notice.'' 91.It Fl t Ar tag 92Mark every line in the log with the specified 93.Ar tag . 94.It Ar message 95Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 96.Fl f 97flag is not 98provided, standard input is logged. 99.El 100.Sh EXIT STATUS 101.Ex -std 102.Sh EXAMPLES 103.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 104logger System rebooted 105 106logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 107.Ed 108.Sh SEE ALSO 109.Xr syslog 3 , 110.Xr syslogd 8 111.Sh STANDARDS 112The 113.Nm 114command is expected to be 115.St -p1003.2 116compatible. 117