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| author | David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@tele2.at> | 2018-08-28 22:12:17 +0200 |
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| committer | David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@tele2.at> | 2018-08-31 10:14:06 +0200 |
| commit | 34aff498edf05f95e7e622632440b2fc967b01a8 (patch) | |
| tree | c19974ca6d0d6a7559d0fb1d6e3933c16b7df0e7 /cmd | |
| parent | b5c6e9d392b4d8368286f2dd807d668c7213965a (diff) | |
Add man page for syslog command
Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@tele2.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'cmd')
| -rw-r--r-- | cmd/Makemodule.am | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | cmd/syslog.1 | 47 |
2 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cmd/Makemodule.am b/cmd/Makemodule.am index e68a244..7e5bab7 100644 --- a/cmd/Makemodule.am +++ b/cmd/Makemodule.am @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ syslog_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) syslog_LDADD = libinit.a bin_PROGRAMS += syslog +dist_man1_MANS += cmd/syslog.1 endif dist_man8_MANS += cmd/shutdown.8 diff --git a/cmd/syslog.1 b/cmd/syslog.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..382b568 --- /dev/null +++ b/cmd/syslog.1 @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +.TH syslog 1 "August 2018" "Pygos Init" +.SH NAME +syslog \- send a log message to the syslog daemon +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B syslog +[options] message.. +.SH DESCRIPTION +The syslog command concatenates all non option arguments to a single message +that it sends to the syslog daemon. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR \-h , " \-\-help" +Display a brief help text, a list of available facilities, log levels, all the +default setting and exit. +.TP +.BR \-V , " \-\-version" +Print version information and exit. +.TP +.BR \-f , " \-\-facility " \fIfacility\fP +Logging facility name or numeric identifier. Use +.B \-\-help +to get a list of all available facility names. +.TP +.BR \-l , " \-\-level " \fIlevel\fP +A log level number from 0 to 8 with 8 being most severe, or a name from +.I debug +to +.I emergency. +Use +.B \-\-help +to get a list of all available log level names. +.TP +.BR \-i , " \-\-ident " \fIname\fP +Program name to specify to syslog. If not set, "(shell)" is used as sensible +default to indicate that the message came from the command line. +.TP +.BR \-c , " \-\-console" +Try to write directly to the console if opening the syslog socket fails. +.SH AVAILABILITY +This program is part of the Pygos init system. +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co 2018 David Oberhollenzer +.br +License: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. +.br +This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. +There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. |