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initlog(8) System Manager's Manual initlog(8) NAME
initlog - log messages and events to the system logger SYNOPSIS
initlog [-cefnpqrs] [--cmd=ARG] [--event=ARG] [--facility=ARG] [--name=ARG] [--priority=ARG] [--run=ARG] [--string=ARG] DESCRIPTION
initlog logs messages and events to the system logger. It is mainly designed for use in init scripts. initlog reads a configuration file /etc/initlog.conf by default, to determine its settings. Any line preceded with a # is a comment, and the following configuration direc- tives are recognized: facility <logging facility> Sets the default logging facility priority <logging priority> Sets the default logging priority ignore <regexp> Messages that match the regular expression will not be logged. initlog behavior can also be configured by command-line options. OPTIONS -c, --cmd=[program] Execute the specified program, logging anything output to stdout or stderr. -e, --event=[number] Logs that the specified event happened. Used in conjuction with --name. Currently specified events are: 1 the action completed successfully 2 the action failed 3 the action was cancelled at user request 4 the action failed due to the failure of a dependent action -f, --facility=[facility] Log at the specified syslog facility. The default is daemon (see syslog(3)). -n, --name=[string] Log the event under the specified string, such as "inetd". -p, --priority=[priority] Log at the specified syslog priority. The default is notice (see syslog(3)). -q Do not print the program's output, unless it exits with a non-zero exit code. -r, --run=[program] Execute the specified program, with an open file descriptor so that the program can pass back commands to initlog. -s, --string=[string] Log the specified string to the logger. --conf=[file] Specifies an alternate configuration file. FILES
/etc/initlog.conf SEE ALSO
syslog(3), logger(1) Sun Jan 24 1999 initlog(8)
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logger(1) User Commands logger(1) NAME
logger - add entries to the system log SYNOPSIS
logger [-i] [-f file] [-p priority] [-t tag] [message] ... DESCRIPTION
The logger command provides a method for adding one-line entries to the system log file from the command line. One or more message argu- ments can be given on the command line, in which case each is logged immediately. If this is unspecified, either the file indicated with -f or the standard input is added to the log. Otherwise, a file can be specified, in which case each line in the file is logged. If neither is specified, logger reads and logs messages on a line-by-line basis from the standard input. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -ffile Uses the contents of file as the message to log. -i Logs the process ID of the logger process with each line. -ppriority Enters the message with the specified priority. The message priority can be specified numerically, or as a facility.level pair. For example, `-p local3.info' assigns the message priority to the info level in the local3 facility. The default pri- ority is user.notice. -ttag Marks each line added to the log with the specified tag. OPERANDS
The following operand is supported: message One of the string arguments whose contents are concatenated together, in the order specified, separated by single space charac- ters. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Examples of the logger command The following example: example% logger System rebooted logs the message `System rebooted' to the default priority level notice to be treated by syslogd as are other messages to the facility user. The next example: example% logger -p local0.notice -t HOSTIDM -f /dev/idmc reads from the file /dev/idmc and logs each line in that file as a message with the tag `HOSTIDM' at priority level notice to be treated by syslogd as are other messages to the facility local0. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of logger: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES- SAGES, and NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mailx(1), write(1), syslogd(1M), syslog(3C), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 1 Feb 1995 logger(1)