| 1 | .TH splogger 8 |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | splogger \- make entries in syslog |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .B splogger |
| 6 | [ |
| 7 | .I tag |
| 8 | [ |
| 9 | .I fac |
| 10 | ] |
| 11 | ] |
| 12 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 13 | .B splogger |
| 14 | reads a series of messages and feeds them to |
| 15 | .BR syslog . |
| 16 | At the front of each message it puts |
| 17 | .I tag |
| 18 | (default: |
| 19 | .BR splogger ) |
| 20 | and a numerical timestamp. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | .B splogger |
| 23 | checks for |
| 24 | .B alert: |
| 25 | or |
| 26 | .B warning: |
| 27 | at the beginning of each message. |
| 28 | It selects a priority of |
| 29 | LOG_ALERT, LOG_WARNING, or LOG_INFO accordingly. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | .B splogger |
| 32 | logs messages with facility |
| 33 | .IR fac . |
| 34 | .I fac |
| 35 | (default: 2) |
| 36 | must be numeric. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | .B splogger |
| 39 | converts unprintable characters to question marks. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | .B splogger |
| 42 | does not log blank lines. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | .B splogger |
| 45 | folds messages after 800 characters, |
| 46 | since |
| 47 | .B syslog |
| 48 | can't handle long messages. |
| 49 | .B splogger |
| 50 | uses a + after the timestamp |
| 51 | to mark folded lines. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | Note that the |
| 54 | .B syslog |
| 55 | mechanism is inherently unreliable: |
| 56 | it does not guarantee that messages will be logged. |
| 57 | It is also very slow. |
| 58 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 59 | syslog(3), |
| 60 | logger(8) |