Record entries in log files with logger

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Call me Mr. Obvious on this one, but I actually always need to check out the manpage for this…

If you want to record entries in logs file :

Example here in daemon.log

$ sudo logger -p daemon.warn "This is a test"

Where daemon is the facility, warn is the level

Hit Ctrl+C when done.

Result in /var/log/daemon.log : Aug 20 13:07:16 hostname user: "This is a test"

Check /etc/syslog.conf to know the facilities :

auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log .;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog #cron.* /var/log/cron.log daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log mail.* -/var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log

This morning I was asked on launchpad to send the content of daemon.log after a reboot.. I used logger to mark when I was about to reboot, and when the machine was back up. It allowed me to cut the interesting snippet out of the whole log easily.