errlogger(1)

Table of Contents

1. NAME
2. SYNOPSIS
3. DESCRIPTION
4. OPTIONS
5. AUTHOR
6. SEE ALSO

1. NAME

errlogger - Redirect standard error of a program to the system log

2. SYNOPSIS

errlogger [-h] [-n NAME] [-f FACILITY] [-p PRIORITY] PROGRAM [ARGS…]

3. DESCRIPTION

errlogger starts the given PROGRAM with its standard error connected to a (write-only) pipe, the other end of which errlogger will read lines from. Every line so read will be logged to the system log.

The utility of errlogger is in the ability to log error messages from programs connected to no other saved output, such as programs started by ashd(7) in daemon mode.

errlogger will exit as soon as it reads end-of-file on its end of the pipe; that is, when the write-end of the pipe is closed, which will usually happen when the program exits.

4. OPTIONS

-h: Print a brief help message to standard output and exit.
-n NAME: Use NAME as the log identification. If not given, PROGRAM will be used by default.
-f FACILITY: Log to the given log facility, which may be any of auth, authpriv, cron, daemon, ftp, kern, lpr, mail, news, user, uucp or local0 through local7. By default, daemon is used.
-p PRIORITY: Log at the given log priority, which may be any of emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info or debug. By default, warning is used.

5. AUTHOR

Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>

6. SEE ALSO

syslog(3), ashd(7)