Questions tagged [logger]
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Determining cause of recurring external SSD data transfer with goal of preventing it
The LED lights for an external SSD connected via USB to a Linux Mint box indicate data transfer every 00:06:15 (6 mins 15 secs), despite no user applications (and possibly no processes) accessing the ...
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How to know if telnet stream is at await state or not from looking at the logs
I have started a telnet session and it prints the output to a file and i give commands to the telnet after analyzing the log file log.txt. Below is the bash code
cat my1.fifo | telnet 172.27.172.150 ...
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Print on stdout and log with logger
I have a bash script with several "echo STRING" commands. I would like to log STRING with logger but still print it on stdout. echo STRING | logger obliviously does not do it.
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Split logging on rsyslogd
My goal is to send all logs to one source remote and still log local but then send all the AuditD logs to its own source on port 20002. But for some reason, my auditd logs are still ending up with my ...
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Where does `logger` save messages to on macOS?
I'm writing a shell script that utilizes the Linux logger to log output. Based on that documentation, I believe that the logging is sent to /var/log/syslog on Linux which would be var/logs/system.log ...
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How to redirect rsyslog messges from a specific unix socket to a different log file without duplication?
I have been trying to implement separate logging for haproxy.
But I end up with duplicate logging and can't separate logs based on the input socket or facility alone.
My sample configuration in ...
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Rsyslog losing log message when file does not exist
I'm encountering case when rsyslog message is lost when the file its supposed to write to does not exist.
Here is my setup:
log server 192.168.1.2 have such config:
module(load="imtcp")
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Should (and how can) non-critical logs be sent to /var/log/messages using logger(1)?
I have a cron script logging msgs via | logger ….
I am understanding that /var/log/syslog is mainly for critical or err msgs and /var/log/messages is for informational, non-critical msgs.
If the ...
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logger command reports I am a user even if running under sudo?
I have a line
logger Ok
in my script. When I run it from command line with either of
./myscript.sh
sudo ./myscript.sh
sudo bash ./myscript.sh
it writes in log
Oct 17 22:32:01 d40688 mysqlf: Ok
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Does logger(1) command belong to util-linux? [duplicate]
Does logger(1) command belong to util-linux? it is not shown in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/util-linux/index.html, but in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/bsdutils/logger.1.en.html.
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How to record local3 with all severity levels to a file using system logger?
I'm using a VM. Ubuntu Linux.
What I'm trying to do is use System logger to record the local3 facility with all severity levels to a file /var/log/local3.log
I'm confused as to what the process is. Am ...
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given `logger -t specificUser` how do filter tail by that tag? (tail -f ??? specificUser)
if i'm tagging my logs with -t, how do i filter my log searches for that specific tag?
given:
logger -t specificUser
show it (in real time) with
tail -f ???? specificUser
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How to encrypt messages using TLS encryption and send to sys logger?
I am using following logger command to send message to /var/log/message.
logger -n 10.102.5.19 "system shutdown"
my question is, how to encrypt the message("system shutdown") using TLS encryption. I ...
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Redirecting logs to a file using systemd is not working
I am trying to redirect logs to a file using systemd. I have tried adding below statements to the service.
StandardOutput=file:/tmp/test1.txt
StandardError=file:/tmp/test2.txt
But those files are ...
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Logger on remote server
I am trying to send log message to my virtual machine from work station.
Command :
logger -n 192.168.122.78 Test
After this command nothing shows up in /var/log/messages of VM, or work station. No ...
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how to use logger to write info to log
I want to use the logger command in order to write logs to /var/log/server.log
NOTE: These examples use the FreeBSD version of logger. Your system may have different options, so read your local ...
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logger + how to change the logger title instead user root
I want to use the log - /var/log/message for my logs
my application name is - whatsapp_man
for example I send the following warning to the log
[root@worker01 ~]# logger "please noitce you are before ...
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rsyslog only making log files in /var/logs
Running centos 7, my rsyslog.conf looks like this:
59 # Log all the mail messages in one place.
60 mail.* /var/log/maillog
61 mail.* /var/log/logtest1
62 mail.* /root/logtest
Then I use the ...
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Logger -f command killed opening /var/log/messages in tail
I'm trying to run this command on CentOS.
logger -t AUDIT_LOG -f <MY_AUDIT_LOG_FILE> &
It works correctly for 10/20 seconds. Opening /var/log/messages in tail I can correctly see messages ...
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Pipe nohup output to logger w/ different priorities
I've got a third-party Python script to run in background using nohup. And instead of piping the output to a file I'd like the output to be appended to the system log using logger. Added to that I ...
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Is it good to have many log filters in rsyslog conf
I am planning to add filters in rsyslog.conf to redirect the syslog messages based on a tag so that I can log using logger and redirect to a custom log file.
configuration in rsyslog.conf looks ...
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Why is directing stdout to a file inconsistent and delayed? [duplicate]
I have tried two methods to direct the output of a program's printf calls to a file. In both cases, sometimes the file is updated immediately, sometimes it takes several minutes, and sometimes it ...
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Having trouble redirecting application output to log file
I have an embedded ARM device running Linux which launches an application on boot. This application has a bunch of "printf(...)" statements in it that I need to view. The normal way I have been ...
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iptables LOG only once
I noticed that there are data in the iptables log that I don't need, so I was wondering if it's possible to change some configuration so that the log has less information, thus reducing the log's size....
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fail to log through rsyslog on an archlinux system
Using release 2016.03.01 from Archlinux, with package rsyslogd 8.18.0, I started from the minimal configuration built from Very simple config
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# cat rsyslog.conf
$ModLoad immark
$ModLoad imudp
$...
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How to customize Shorewall firewall logs
I am using Fedora 13 machine with shorewall installed.
shorewall 4.6.6-RC1
iptables v1.4.7
Below is log format by shorewall:
Oct 23 05:28:17 localhost kernel: shorewall:LAN-LAN:ACCEPT:IN= OUT=lo SRC=...
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Is there a way to log key presses under linux?
I am a heavy Vim user and I also use a ton of tmux and a load of bash in my everyday computer activities.
In order to optimize my work flow, even more, I would like a way to get a log of all key ...
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CD with redirect to logger does not work
On Linux, the following cd works fine so cds into tmp:
/ # cd /tmp
tmp #
But this does not work (stays at root, nothing appears in /var/log/messages). Why not?
/ # cd /tmp 2>&1 | /usr/bin/...
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Logging incoming request to my nginx proxy server
I would like to log all incoming requests, before it hits my worker nodes.
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connecting to IRC and log all conversations
I would like to setup a tool on my server that automatically connects to a certain irc channel and logs all conversations.
Also this tool should
welcome a certain user with a certain pre-defined ...
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Extract file from completely disconnected machine, possibly via Kernel messages
I have a VPS running inside an OpenStack cloud that has more or less crashed completely - the provider hasn't been able to get any kind of networking on it for over 2 days, seems completely broken on ...
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Remote syslog command line Client
I use logger pretty regularly, but is there a FOSS command line tool for remote submission of syslog messages over the network?
Right now, I have to configure a facility/priority pair to submit to a ...
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rsyslog && sending data to other host
Using CentOS 6.4.
Problem is - that messages from kern.* facility doesn't appear on other server.
Tring to send data:
# logger -p kern.warning -t TEST "Test warning for remote host KERNEL"
# logger ...
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Where does `logger` log its messages to in Arch Linux?
The logger command logs an entry via syslog, which usually puts that line to some file like /var/log/messages.
If I understand the documentation correctly in Arch Linux all the logging is done ...
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How can I use tee and logger -t "some tag:"?
I've seen in another post which shows how to use tee and logger as shown below.
tee >(logger) <<< "System Load is OK : $Current_loadadv"
>(logger) is bash syntax to create a file ...
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What do you use the -t "tag" option for in logger?
When using the "logger" command to write messages to the system logs from scripts, I use the -t "tag" to store the scripts name along side the message it's written to the log.
I do this to make ...
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Logger command - how to store logs in given file?
Please explain what below command does.
logger_cmd="logger -p local0.info ${program-name}[$$]:"
$logger_cmd "There is some files missing in ${dest-dir}"
How can I write any message in log file?
I ...
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How to log output to maillog?
On my current Debian setup, I have a file /var/log/mail.log which Dovecot, Postfix, and Spamassassin's spamd all output messages to. I know that the logger command can output to syslog, but is there ...
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print message on terminal as well as /var/log/messages using logger
I used below options in script to print on terminal as well as /var/log/messages
echo "System Load is OK : $Current_loadadv"
echo "System Load is OK : $Current_loadadv" | logger
but how can i do ...
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