logger.1 (866B)
1 .Dd 2015-10-08 2 .Dt LOGGER 1 3 .Os sbase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm logger 6 .Nd make entries in the system log 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl is 10 .Op Fl p Ar priority 11 .Op Fl t Ar tag 12 .Op Ar message ... 13 .Sh DESCRIPTION 14 .Nm 15 provides a shell command interface to the 16 .Xr syslog 3 17 system log module and writes each 18 .Ar message 19 to the log. 20 If no 21 .Ar message 22 is given, 23 .Nm 24 logs stdin. 25 .Sh OPTIONS 26 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx 27 .It Fl i 28 Add the logger process ID to each line in the log. 29 .It Fl p Ar priority 30 Set the message 31 .Ar priority 32 given symbolically as a 33 .Dq facility.level 34 pair. 35 The default is 36 .Dq user.notice . 37 .It Fl s 38 Also log to stderr. 39 .It Fl t Ar tag 40 Add 41 .Ar tag 42 to each line in the log. 43 .El 44 .Sh SEE ALSO 45 .Xr syslogd 1 , 46 .Xr syslog 3 47 .Sh STANDARDS 48 The 49 .Nm 50 utility is compliant with the 51 .St -p1003.1-2013 52 specification. 53 .Pp 54 The 55 .Op Fl ipst 56 flags are an extensions to that specification.