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)