Difference between revisions of "Logger (command)"

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== Basic Usage ==
 
== Basic Usage ==
* <code>logger -s "Message"</code>
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* <code>[[logger -s]] "Message"</code>
 
:: <code>-s, --stderr</code> Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.
 
:: <code>-s, --stderr</code> Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.
  

Latest revision as of 10:49, 2 October 2024

Linux[1] (bsdutils 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[edit]

-s, --stderr Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.
logger --server 10.10.x.x  "TEST"
  • echo "MY TEXT TO LOG" | logger -s
-s, --stderr Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.


logger -n SERVER.DOMAIN.COM -T  "TEST
logger: failed to resolve name SERVER.DOMAIN.COM port syslog-conn: Servname not supported for ai_socktype
 logger -n SERVER.DOMAIN.COM -T -P 514 "TEST

Activities[edit]

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


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See also[edit]

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