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 BSD 4.3 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm logger 40.Nd make entries in the system log 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl is 44.Op Fl f Ar file 45.Op Fl p Ar pri 46.Op Fl t Ar tag 47.Op Ar message ... 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49.Nm Logger 50provides a shell command interface to the 51.Xr syslog 3 52system log module. 53.Pp 54Options: 55.Pp 56.Bl -tag -width "message" 57.It Fl i 58Log the process id of the logger process 59with each line. 60.It Fl s 61Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. 62.It Fl f Ar file 63Log the specified file. 64.It Fl p Ar pri 65Enter the message with the specified priority. 66The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' 67pair. 68For example, ``\-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as 69.Ar info Ns rmational 70level in the 71.Ar local3 72facility. 73The default is ``user.notice.'' 74.It Fl t Ar tag 75Mark every line in the log with the specified 76.Ar tag . 77.It Ar message 78Write the message to log; if not specified, and the 79.Fl f 80flag is not 81provided, standard input is logged. 82.El 83.Pp 84The 85.Nm 86utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 87.Sh EXAMPLES 88.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 89logger System rebooted 90 91logger \-p local0.notice \-t HOSTIDM \-f /dev/idmc 92.Ed 93.Sh SEE ALSO 94.Xr syslog 3 , 95.Xr syslogd 8 96.Sh STANDARDS 97The 98.Nm 99command is expected to be 100.St -p1003.2 101compatible. 102