1<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 3<html> <head> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> 5<title> Postfix manual - postlog(1) </title> 6</head> <body> <pre> 7POSTLOG(1) POSTLOG(1) 8 9<b>NAME</b> 10 postlog - Postfix-compatible logging utility 11 12<b>SYNOPSIS</b> 13 <b>postlog</b> [<b>-iv</b>] [<b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i>] [<b>-p</b> <i>priority</i><b>] [-t</b> <i>tag</i>] 14 [<i>text...</i>] 15 16<b>DESCRIPTION</b> 17 The <a href="postlog.1.html"><b>postlog</b>(1)</a> command implements a Postfix-compatible 18 logging interface for use in, for example, shell scripts. 19 20 By default, <a href="postlog.1.html"><b>postlog</b>(1)</a> logs the <i>text</i> given on the command 21 line as one record. If no <i>text</i> is specified on the command 22 line, <a href="postlog.1.html"><b>postlog</b>(1)</a> reads from standard input and logs each 23 input line as one record. 24 25 Logging is sent to <b>syslogd</b>(8); when the standard error 26 stream is connected to a terminal, logging is sent there 27 as well. 28 29 The following options are implemented: 30 31 <b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i> 32 Read the <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> configuration file in the named 33 directory instead of the default configuration 34 directory. 35 36 <b>-i</b> Include the process ID in the logging tag. 37 38 <b>-p</b> <i>priority</i> 39 Specifies the logging severity: <b>info</b> (default), 40 <b>warn</b>, <b>error</b>, <b>fatal</b>, or <b>panic</b>. 41 42 <b>-t</b> <i>tag</i> Specifies the logging tag, that is, the identifying 43 name that appears at the beginning of each logging 44 record. A default tag is used when none is speci- 45 fied. 46 47 <b>-v</b> Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Mul- 48 tiple <b>-v</b> options make the software increasingly 49 verbose. 50 51<b>ENVIRONMENT</b> 52 MAIL_CONFIG 53 Directory with the <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> file. 54 55<b>CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS</b> 56 The following <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> parameters are especially relevant 57 to this program. 58 59 The text below provides only a parameter summary. See 60 <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>postconf</b>(5)</a> for more details including examples. 61 62 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#config_directory">config_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 63 The default location of the Postfix <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a> and 64 <a href="master.5.html">master.cf</a> configuration files. 65 66 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#syslog_facility">syslog_facility</a> (mail)</b> 67 The syslog facility of Postfix logging. 68 69 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#syslog_name">syslog_name</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 70 The mail system name that is prepended to the 71 process name in syslog records, so that "smtpd" 72 becomes, for example, "postfix/smtpd". 73 74<b>SEE ALSO</b> 75 <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters 76 syslogd(8), syslog daemon 77 78<b>LICENSE</b> 79 The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this 80 software. 81 82<b>AUTHOR(S)</b> 83 Wietse Venema 84 IBM T.J. Watson Research 85 P.O. Box 704 86 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA 87 88 POSTLOG(1) 89</pre> </body> </html> 90