NAME

old-syslog − make a system log entry

SYNOPSIS

/usr/old/syslog [ − ] [ −p ] [ −i name ] [ −level ] [ message... ]

DESCRIPTION

Note: This program is considered to be obsolete, and will not be distributed or supported in future Sun releases. 

syslog sends the specified message (or stdin if ‘−’ is specified) as a system log entry to the syslog daemon.  The log entry is sent to the daemon on the machine specified by the loghost entry in the /etc/hosts file. 

OPTIONS

− Each line of the standard input is sent as a log entry. 

−p syslog will log its process ID in addition to the other information. 

−i name
The specified name will be used as the “ ident ” for the log entry.

−level The message will be logged at the specified level.  The level can be specified numerically, in the range 1 through 9, or symbolically using the names specified in the include file /usr/include/syslog.h (with the leading LOG_ stripped off).  syslog-HELP will list the valid symbolic level names.  Only the super-user can make log entries at levels less than or equal to SALERT.

FILES

/usr/etc/syslogd syslog daemon

/usr/include/syslog.h names of logging levels

SEE ALSO

syslog(3), syslogd(8)

Sun Release 4.0  —  Last change: 22 March 1989