1.\" $NetBSD: logger.1,v 1.12 2010/05/14 16:58:32 jruoho Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)logger.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 31.\" 32.Dd May 14, 2010 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 is 41.Op Fl d Ar SD 42.Op Fl f Ar file 43.Op Fl m Ar msgid 44.Op Fl p Ar pri 45.Op Fl t Ar tag 46.Op Ar message ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Nm 49provides a shell command interface to the 50.Xr syslog 3 51system log module. 52.Pp 53Options: 54.Pp 55.Bl -tag -width "messageXX" 56.It Fl d Ar sd 57Log this in the structured data (SD) field. 58.Po 59.Ar sd 60has to be passed as one argument and will require careful quoting when used from 61the shell. 62.Pc 63.It Fl f Ar file 64Log the specified file. 65.It Fl i 66Log the process id of the logger process 67with each line. 68.It Fl m Ar msgid 69The MSGID used for the message. 70.It Fl p Ar pri 71Enter the message with the specified priority. 72The priority may be specified numerically or as a 73.Dq facility.level 74pair. 75For example, 76.Dq \-p local3.info 77logs the message(s) as 78.Ar info Ns rmational 79level in the 80.Ar local3 81facility. 82The default is 83.Dq user.notice . 84.It Fl s 85Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 86.It Fl t Ar tag 87Mark every line in the log with the specified 88.Ar tag . 89.It Ar message 90Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 91.Fl f 92flag is not provided, standard input is logged. 93.El 94.Sh EXIT STATUS 95.Ex -std logger 96.Sh EXAMPLES 97.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 98logger System rebooted 99 100logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 101.Ed 102.Sh SEE ALSO 103.Xr syslog 3 , 104.Xr syslogd 8 105.Sh STANDARDS 106The 107.Nm 108utility conforms to 109.St -p1003.2-92 . 110