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NAME

       Blogger - writes messages to a running blogd process

SYNOPSIS

       blogger [-n|-d|-f|-s|-u] "a message here"

DESCRIPTION

       blogger	is  used  to  send  messages  to  the  blogd  process during boot phase.  These messages will only appear in the boot logging file
       /var/log/boot.msg and not on /dev/console.

OPTIONS

       -n     Declare the following message as a <notice>.  This is the default.

       -d     Use thist to add the leading string <done> to the message.

       -f     Use thist to add the leading string <failed> to the message.

       -s     Use thist to add the leading string <skipped> to the message.

       -u     Use thist to add the leading string <unused> to the message.

FILES

       /dev/blog
	      the named pipe (FIFO) used as message channel to the blogd process.

SEE ALSO

       blogd(8), console(4), tty(4), proc(5).

COPYRIGHT

       2001 Werner Fink, 2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

AUTHOR

       Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>

3rd Berkeley Distribution					   Jan 26, 2001 							BLOGGER(8)