.TH syslog 1 "August 2018" "usyslog"
.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
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.