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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. |