1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)logger.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd June 6, 1993 36.Dt LOGGER 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm logger 40.Nd make entries in the system log 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl 46Ais 44.Op Fl f Ar file 45.Op Fl h Ar host 46.Op Fl p Ar pri 47.Op Fl t Ar tag 48.Op Ar message ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50.Nm Logger 51provides a shell command interface to the 52.Xr syslog 3 53system log module. 54.Pp 55The following options are available: 56.Bl -tag -width indent 57.It Fl 4 58Forces 59.Nm 60to use IPv4 addresses only. 61.It Fl 6 62Forces 63.Nm 64to use IPv6 addresses only. 65.It Fl A 66.Nm 67tries to send the message to only one address 68even if the host has more than one A or AAAA record. 69If this option is specified, 70.Nm 71tries to send the message to all addresses. 72.It Fl i 73Log the process id of the logger process 74with each line. 75.It Fl s 76Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 77.It Fl f Ar file 78Log the specified file. 79.It Fl h Ar host 80Send the message to the remote system 81.Ar host 82instead of logging it locally. 83.It Fl p Ar pri 84Enter the message with the specified priority. 85The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 86pair. 87For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 88.Ar info Ns rmational 89level in the 90.Ar local3 91facility. 92The default is ``user.notice.'' 93.It Fl t Ar tag 94Mark every line in the log with the specified 95.Ar tag . 96.It Ar message 97Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 98.Fl f 99flag is not 100provided, standard input is logged. 101.El 102.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 103.Ex -std 104.Sh EXAMPLES 105.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 106logger System rebooted 107 108logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 109.Ed 110.Sh SEE ALSO 111.Xr syslog 3 , 112.Xr syslogd 8 113.Sh STANDARDS 114The 115.Nm 116command is expected to be 117.St -p1003.2 118compatible. 119