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log personal message to /var/log/messages

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August 14th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Admin, backquote, logger, tail | Hits: 5790 |

To log personal messages to /var/log/messages when you write script, you can use logger

simple example:

logger i am testing

And check the result with tail, it display last 10 line of messages by default

tail /var/log/messages

To put more info to log file, you can specified the timestamp with scriptname by this

logger -t `basename $0` i am still testing

basename is to display scriptname without ./ or the parent’s path, back quote (`) is to pass the result string to logger.

2 Responses to “log personal message to /var/log/messages”

  1. Thanks, very useful!!!

  2. I have a doubt.How do I write a a message from my program to /var/log/messages ? Is this possible? How?

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