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 6.6 (Berkeley) 07/24/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt LOGGER 1 10.Os BSD 4.3 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm logger 13.Nd make entries in the system log 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm logger 16.Op Fl is 17.Op Fl f Ar file 18.Op Fl p Ar pri 19.Op Fl t Ar tag 20.Op Ar message ... 21.Sh DESCRIPTION 22.Nm Logger 23provides a shell command interface to the 24.Xr syslog 3 25system log module. 26.Pp 27Options: 28.Pp 29.Tw Fl 30.Tp Fl i 31Log the process id of the logger process 32with each line. 33.Tp Fl s 34Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 35.Tc Fl f 36.Ws 37.Ar file 38.Cx 39Log the specified file. 40.Tc Fl p 41.Ws 42.Ar pri 43.Cx 44Enter the message with the specified priority. 45The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 46pair. 47For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 48.Sf Ar info rmational 49level in the 50.Ar local3 51facility. 52The default is ``user.notice.'' 53.Tc Fl t 54.Ws 55.Ar tag 56.Cx 57Mark every line in the log with the specified 58.Ar tag . 59.Tp Ar message 60Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 61.Fl f 62flag is not 63provided, standard input is logged. 64.Tp 65.Pp 66The 67.Nm logger 68utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 69.Sh EXAMPLES 70.Pp 71.Dl logger System rebooted 72.Pp 73.Dl logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 74.Sh SEE ALSO 75.Xr syslog 3 , 76.Xr syslogd 8 77.Sh STANDARDS 78The logger function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible. 79