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            1 .Dd October 8, 2015
            2 .Dt LOGGER 1
            3 .Os sbase
            4 .Sh NAME
            5 .Nm logger
            6 .Nd make entries in the system log
            7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
            8 .Nm
            9 .Op Fl is
           10 .Op Fl p Ar priority
           11 .Op Fl t Ar tag
           12 .Op Ar message ...
           13 .Sh DESCRIPTION
           14 .Nm
           15 provides a shell command interface to the
           16 .Xr syslog 3
           17 system log module and writes each
           18 .Ar message
           19 to the log.
           20 If no
           21 .Ar message
           22 is given,
           23 .Nm
           24 logs stdin.
           25 .Sh OPTIONS
           26 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx
           27 .It Fl i
           28 Add the logger process ID to each line in the log.
           29 .It Fl p Ar priority
           30 Set the message
           31 .Ar priority
           32 given symbolically as a
           33 .Dq facility.level
           34 pair.
           35 The default is
           36 .Dq user.notice .
           37 .It Fl s
           38 Also log to stderr.
           39 .It Fl t Ar tag
           40 Add
           41 .Ar tag
           42 to each line in the log.
           43 .El
           44 .Sh SEE ALSO
           45 .Xr syslogd 1 ,
           46 .Xr syslog 3
           47 .Sh STANDARDS
           48 POSIX.1-2013.
           49 .Pp
           50 The
           51 .Op Fl ipst
           52 flags are an extensions to that specification.