1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)logger.1 6.7 (Berkeley) 03/14/91 7.\" 8.Vx 9.Vx 10.Dd 11.Dt LOGGER 1 12.Os BSD 4.3 13.Sh NAME 14.Nm logger 15.Nd make entries in the system log 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.Nm logger 18.Op Fl is 19.Op Fl f Ar file 20.Op Fl p Ar pri 21.Op Fl t Ar tag 22.Op Ar message ... 23.Sh DESCRIPTION 24.Nm Logger 25provides a shell command interface to the 26.Xr syslog 3 27system log module. 28.Pp 29Options: 30.Pp 31.Tw Fl 32.Tp Fl i 33Log the process id of the logger process 34with each line. 35.Tp Fl s 36Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 37.Tc Fl f 38.Ws 39.Ar file 40.Cx 41Log the specified file. 42.Tc Fl p 43.Ws 44.Ar pri 45.Cx 46Enter the message with the specified priority. 47The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 48pair. 49For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 50.Sf Ar info rmational 51level in the 52.Ar local3 53facility. 54The default is ``user.notice.'' 55.Tc Fl t 56.Ws 57.Ar tag 58.Cx 59Mark every line in the log with the specified 60.Ar tag . 61.Tp Ar message 62Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 63.Fl f 64flag is not 65provided, standard input is logged. 66.Tp 67.Pp 68The 69.Nm logger 70utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 71.Sh EXAMPLES 72.Pp 73.Dl logger System rebooted 74.Pp 75.Dl logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 76.Sh SEE ALSO 77.Xr syslog 3 , 78.Xr syslogd 8 79.Sh STANDARDS 80The logger function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible. 81