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a command line utility that sends messages to the syslog daemon

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Where does `logger` log its messages to in Arch Linux?

The logger command logs an entry via syslog, which usually puts that line to some file like /var/log/messages. If I understand the documentation correctly in Arch Linux all the logging is done through systemd, but I cannot find the logger entries…
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Remote syslog command line Client

I use logger pretty regularly, but is there a FOSS command line tool for remote submission of syslog messages over the network? Right now, I have to configure a facility/priority pair to submit to a remote server on the rsyslogd side. I'd like to…
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print message on terminal as well as /var/log/messages using logger

I used below options in script to print on terminal as well as /var/log/messages echo "System Load is OK : $Current_loadadv" echo "System Load is OK : $Current_loadadv" | logger but how can i do that in single line ?
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What do you use the -t "tag" option for in logger?

When using the "logger" command to write messages to the system logs from scripts, I use the -t "tag" to store the scripts name along side the message it's written to the log. I do this to make finding entries easier for troubleshooting. Are there…
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How can I use tee and logger -t "some tag:"?

I've seen in another post which shows how to use tee and logger as shown below. tee >(logger) <<< "System Load is OK : $Current_loadadv" >(logger) is bash syntax to create a file descriptor that is going to a FIFO, which is then fed to the…
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How to redirect rsyslog messges from a specific unix socket to a different log file without duplication?

I have been trying to implement separate logging for haproxy. But I end up with duplicate logging and can't separate logs based on the input socket or facility alone. My sample configuration in haproxy: Global configuration: log …
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Logger command - how to store logs in given file?

Please explain what below command does. logger_cmd="logger -p local0.info ${program-name}[$$]:" $logger_cmd "There is some files missing in ${dest-dir}" How can I write any message in log file? I wrote below a command, but it didn't show any…
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Logging incoming request to my nginx proxy server

I would like to log all incoming requests, before it hits my worker nodes.
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Extract file from completely disconnected machine, possibly via Kernel messages

I have a VPS running inside an OpenStack cloud that has more or less crashed completely - the provider hasn't been able to get any kind of networking on it for over 2 days, seems completely broken on their end. The server itself has already been…
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How to encrypt messages using TLS encryption and send to sys logger?

I am using following logger command to send message to /var/log/message. logger -n 10.102.5.19 "system shutdown" my question is, how to encrypt the message("system shutdown") using TLS encryption. I am having certificate file(.cer), jks file(.jks)…
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Redirecting logs to a file using systemd is not working

I am trying to redirect logs to a file using systemd. I have tried adding below statements to the service. StandardOutput=file:/tmp/test1.txt StandardError=file:/tmp/test2.txt But those files are not generating. Is there anything I am missing here?…
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Pipe nohup output to logger w/ different priorities

I've got a third-party Python script to run in background using nohup. And instead of piping the output to a file I'd like the output to be appended to the system log using logger. Added to that I need the error output to be logged using the…
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iptables LOG only once

I noticed that there are data in the iptables log that I don't need, so I was wondering if it's possible to change some configuration so that the log has less information, thus reducing the log's size. I would like log a write only once per IP…
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fail to log through rsyslog on an archlinux system

Using release 2016.03.01 from Archlinux, with package rsyslogd 8.18.0, I started from the minimal configuration built from Very simple config : # cat rsyslog.conf $ModLoad immark $ModLoad imudp $ModLoad imtcp $ModLoad imuxsock $ModLoad…
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CD with redirect to logger does not work

On Linux, the following cd works fine so cds into tmp: / # cd /tmp tmp # But this does not work (stays at root, nothing appears in /var/log/messages). Why not? / # cd /tmp 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t Test / # I tried with stripping off this stderr…
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