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.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/logger/logger.1,v 1.3 2006/02/17 19:39:09 swildner Exp $ 35.\" 36.Dd June 6, 1993 37.Dt LOGGER 1 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm logger 41.Nd make entries in the system log 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl 46Ais 45.Op Fl f Ar file 46.Op Fl h Ar host 47.Op Fl p Ar pri 48.Op Fl t Ar tag 49.Op Ar message ... 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm 53utility provides a shell command interface to the 54.Xr syslog 3 55system log module. 56.Pp 57The following options are available: 58.Bl -tag -width indent 59.It Fl 4 60Force 61.Nm 62to use IPv4 addresses only. 63.It Fl 6 64Force 65.Nm 66to use IPv6 addresses only. 67.It Fl A 68By default, 69.Nm 70tries to send the message to only one address, 71even if the host has more than one A or AAAA record. 72If this option is specified, 73.Nm 74tries to send the message to all addresses. 75.It Fl i 76Log the process id of the logger process 77with each line. 78.It Fl s 79Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 80.It Fl f Ar file 81Log the specified file. 82.It Fl h Ar host 83Send the message to the remote system 84.Ar host 85instead of logging it locally. 86.It Fl p Ar pri 87Enter the message with the specified priority. 88The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 89pair. 90For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 91.Ar info Ns rmational 92level in the 93.Ar local3 94facility. 95The default is ``user.notice.'' 96.It Fl t Ar tag 97Mark every line in the log with the specified 98.Ar tag . 99.It Ar message 100Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 101.Fl f 102flag is not 103provided, standard input is logged. 104.El 105.Sh EXAMPLES 106.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 107logger System rebooted 108 109logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 110.Ed 111.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 112.Ex -std 113.Sh SEE ALSO 114.Xr syslog 3 , 115.Xr syslogd 8 116.Sh STANDARDS 117The 118.Nm 119command is expected to be 120.St -p1003.2 121compatible. 122