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06-10-2004

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Check out the man page for logger - it adds entries to the system log. The man page has examples to place messages via syslog.

I have never tried doing it in the way you suggest so I don't have step-by-step instructions via cron.

(After seeing you quote me I thought maybe I wasn't clear enough...)
1. Sign into your system
2. At your prompt, type man logger
3. Look for the examples

A cron job can be a script that is run - inside the script you can send your messages via logger. To get the completion or error codes from cron, you would have to have the output of the email cron sends - you can't send that to logger but would have to create another script.

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logger

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

NAME

     logger -- make entries in the system log

SYNOPSIS

     logger [-is] [-d SD] [-f file] [-m msgid] [-p pri] [-t tag] [message ...]

DESCRIPTION

     logger provides a shell command interface to the syslog(3) system log module.

     Options:

     -d sd	Log this in the structured data (SD) field.  (sd has to be passed as one argument and will require careful quoting when used from
		the shell.)

     -f file	Log the specified file.

     -i 	Log the process id of the logger process with each line.

     -m msgid	The MSGID used for the message.

     -p pri	Enter the message with the specified priority.	The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' pair.  For
		example, ``-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as informational level in the local3 facility.	The default is ``user.notice''.

     -s 	Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log.

     -t tag	Mark every line in the log with the specified tag.

     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 utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').

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