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== Basic Usage ==
 
== Basic Usage ==
 
* <code>logger -s "Message"</code>
 
* <code>logger -s "Message"</code>
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:: -s, --stderr Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.
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*<code> echo "MY TEXT TO LOG" | logger -s</code>
 
:: -s, --stderr Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.
 
:: -s, --stderr Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.
  

Revision as of 13:05, 24 December 2019

Linux[1] (util-linux package) and most BSDs including MacOS provide logger command line utility to send messages to syslog, locally or to a remote syslog server. Many languages provide support for writing messages to syslog, such as go: https://godoc.org/github.com/spkg/slog.


Basic Usage

  • logger -s "Message"
-s, --stderr Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.
  • echo "MY TEXT TO LOG" | logger -s
-s, --stderr Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.

Activities

  1. Log messages to a different file using rsyslog and logger command[2]


See also

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