| .Dd 2015-10-08 |
| .Dt LOGGER 1 |
| .Os sbase |
| .Sh NAME |
| .Nm logger |
| .Nd make entries in the system log |
| .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| .Nm |
| .Op Fl is |
| .Op Fl p Ar priority |
| .Op Fl t Ar tag |
| .Op Ar message ... |
| .Sh DESCRIPTION |
| .Nm |
| provides a shell command interface to the |
| .Xr syslog 3 |
| system log module and writes each |
| .Ar message |
| to the log. |
| If no |
| .Ar message |
| is given, |
| .Nm |
| logs stdin. |
| .Sh OPTIONS |
| .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx |
| .It Fl i |
| Add the logger process ID to each line in the log. |
| .It Fl p Ar priority |
| Set the message |
| .Ar priority |
| given symbolically as a |
| .Dq facility.level |
| pair. The default is |
| .Dq user.notice . |
| .It Fl s |
| Also log to stderr. |
| .It Fl t Ar tag |
| Add |
| .Ar tag |
| to each line in the log. |
| .El |
| .Sh SEE ALSO |
| .Xr syslogd 1 , |
| .Xr syslog 3 |
| .Sh STANDARDS |
| The |
| .Nm |
| utility is compliant with the |
| .St -p1003.1-2013 |
| specification. |
| .Pp |
| The |
| .Op Fl ipst |
| flags are an extensions to that specification. |