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. The default is 35 .Dq user.notice . 36 .It Fl s 37 Also log to stderr. 38 .It Fl t Ar tag 39 Add 40 .Ar tag 41 to each line in the log. 42 .El 43 .Sh SEE ALSO 44 .Xr syslogd 1 , 45 .Xr syslog 3 46 .Sh STANDARDS 47 The 48 .Nm 49 utility is compliant with the 50 .St -p1003.1-2013 51 specification. 52 .Pp 53 The 54 .Op Fl ipst 55 flags are an extensions to that specification.