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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) How can I direct messages from mac console.app to a log file? Post 303038513 by Neo on Thursday 5th of September 2019 01:56:10 AM
Old 09-05-2019
Thanks.

It looks like the level of detail you are looking for is not available in system_profiler and you may have no choice but to use the logfiles (syslog) as you were doing (indirectly via console.app).

Console.app automatically shows system.log, and other log files, so you don't need to redirect entries from console.app but you need to find the (syslog) file which console.app used.

Make sense?

Example:

Code:
/var/log/system.log

You can monitor it easily using tail -f /var/log/system.log

Reference: see also the "logger" (man logger) and "syslog" (man syslog).

Please post back with the details of which log file you found had the information you need.

Thanks.
 

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LOGGER(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 LOGGER(1)

NAME
logger -- make entries in the system log SYNOPSIS
logger [-46Ais] [-f file] [-h host] [-P port] [-p pri] [-t tag] [message ...] DESCRIPTION
The logger utility provides a shell command interface to the syslog(3) system log module. The following options are available: -4 Force logger to use IPv4 addresses only. -6 Force logger to use IPv6 addresses only. -A By default, logger tries to send the message to only one address, even if the host has more than one A or AAAA record. If this option is specified, logger tries to send the message to all addresses. -i Log the process id of the logger process with each line. -s Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. -f file Read the contents of the specified file into syslog. -h host Send the message to the remote system host instead of logging it locally. -P port Send the message to the specified port number on a remote system, which can be specified as a service name or as a decimal number. The default is ``syslog''. If an unknown service name is used, logger prints a warning and falls back to port 514. -p pri Enter the message with the specified priority. The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' pair. For exam- ple, ``-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as informational level in the local3 facility. The default is ``user.notice.'' -t tag Mark every line in the log with the specified tag rather than the default of current login name. message Write the message to log; if not specified, and the -f flag is not provided, standard input is logged. EXIT STATUS
The logger utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
logger System rebooted logger -p local0.notice -t HOSTIDM -f /dev/idmc SEE ALSO
syslog(3), syslogd(8) STANDARDS
The logger command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible. BSD
March 4, 2014 BSD
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