Name
logger
— a shell command interface to the syslog daemon
Synopsis
logger
[[-f]file
]
[-i]
[[-p]pri
]
[-s]
[[-t]tag
]
Description
Logger makes entries in the system log.
It provides a shell command interface to the syslog daemon.
Options
-
-f
file
-
Log the specified file.
-
-i
-
Log the process id of the logger process with each line.
-
-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.
The logger utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
Valid facility names are: auth, authpriv (for security information of
a sensitive nature), cron, daemon, ftp, kern, lpr, mail, news, security
(deprecated synonym for auth), syslog, user, uucp, and local0 to local7,
inclusive.
Valid level names are: alert, crit, debug, emerg, err, error (deprecated
synonym for err), info, notice, panic (deprecated synonym for emerg),
warning, warn (deprecated synonym for warning).