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<refentry>
<refentryinfo>
<title>logger</title>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>logger</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>logger</refname>
<refpurpose>a shell command interface to the syslog daemon</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>logger</command>
<group choice="opt"><arg>-f</arg><replaceable> file</replaceable></group>
<arg choice="opt">-i</arg>
<group choice="opt"><arg>-p</arg><replaceable> pri</replaceable></group>
<arg choice="opt">-s</arg>
<group choice="opt"><arg>-t</arg><replaceable> tag</replaceable></group>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
<command>Logger</command> makes entries in the system log.
It provides a shell command interface to the syslog daemon.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<option>-f</option><replaceable> file</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Log the specified file.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<option>-i</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Log the process id of the logger process with each line.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<option>-p</option><replaceable> pri</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Enter the message with the specified priority.
The priority may be specified numerically or as a
<quote>facility.level</quote> pair.
For example, <option>-p local3.info</option> logs the message(s)
as informational level in the local3 facility.
The default is <quote>user.notice</quote>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<option>-s</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<option>-t</option><replaceable> tag</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Mark every line in the log with the specified tag.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
The logger utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
</para>
<para>
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.
</para>
<para>
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).
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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