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Linux Administration/System Services/System Logging/logger

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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

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

Activities

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


See also

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  1. ↑ http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/logger.1.html
  2. ↑ http://jensd.be/372/linux/write-to-and-manage-syslog-messages-with-logger-and-rsyslog
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