logger command

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To manually create a log entry, you can use the logger command. This command serves as an interface to the syslog system log module and it is commonly used in scripts. For example, a backup script might use logger to record details such as its start and stop times and the number of files it has backed up.

Here is a simple example:

NOTE – by default, logger writes to /var/log/messages.

To record the process ID (PID) of the logger process along with other data, use the -i option:

To log the content of a file, use the -f option:

By default, logger includes its name in the log file as the tag. To change the tag, use the -t TAG option:

To echo the message to standard error (the screen), as well as to /var/log/messages, use the -s option:

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