Linux Administration/System Services/System Logging/logger

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 edit

  • logger -s "Message"
-s, --stderr Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.

Activities edit

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


See also edit