The nix logger command reimplemented in portable scripting languages without any legacy 1024-byte message-size restriction.
- Uses Python's standard logging module
- Differences with modern
loggercommand:- Has no 1024-byte message-size restriction (no message splitting performed)
- Supports new
--ppidoption to append parent process id to tag - Does not support
--stderroption
- Similarities with modern (Fedora util-linux)
loggercommand:- Accepts log message as command-line arguments
- Accepts log messages via stdin
- Accepts log messages by reading file passed to
-f/--file - Single-letter opts and full-word opts are completely compatible
- Supports specifying custom facility.priority
- Supports sending to custom socket, local/remote tcp & udp
- Supports custom tags
- Supports adding PID to tag
- Supports adding custom (arbitrary) ID to tag
- Fedora
- RHEL 7
- RHEL 6 (install
python-argparsepackage)
$ ./logger.py -h
usage: logger.py [-h] [-p PRIO] [-t TAG] [-i | --id [ID] | --ppid]
[-u SOCKET | -d | -T] [-n SERVER] [-P PORT] [-f FILE] [-e]
[MESSAGE [MESSAGE ...]]
A python logger clone that reads input from stdin, cmdline, or files
positional arguments:
MESSAGE log single MESSAGE and quit instead of reading stdin
(default: None)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p, --priority PRIO specify priority for given message (default: user.info)
-t, --tag TAG add tag to given message (default: rsaw)
-i, --pid append logger.py PID to tag (default: False)
--id [ID] append arbitrary ID to tag or if no ID specified, use
PID (default: None)
--ppid append logger.py parent PID to tag (default: False)
-u, --socket SOCKET write to local UNIX socket (default: /dev/log)
-d, --udp log via UDP instead of UNIX socket (default: False)
-T, --tcp log via TCP instead of UNIX socket (default: False)
-n, --server SERVER DNS/IP of syslog server to use with --udp or --tcp
(default: localhost)
-P, --port PORT port to use with --udp or --tcp (default: 514)
-f, --file FILE log each line of FILE as a separate message instead of
reading stdin or specifying MESSAGE on cmdline
(default: None)
-e, --skip-empty ignore empty lines when using --file (default: False)
logger.py v0.3.0 last mod 2016/04/13; For issues & questions, see:
https://github.com/ryran/loggerclones/issues
- Uses Perl's standard Sys::Syslog module
- Differences with modern
loggercommand:- Has no 1024-byte message-size restriction (no message splitting performed)
- Does not accept log message as command-line arguments
- Does not support passing file via
-f/--file - Does not support adding custom (arbitrary) ID to tag
- Similarities with modern (Fedora util-linux)
loggercommand:- Accepts log messages via stdin
- Single-letter opts and full-word opts are completely compatible
- Supports specifying custom facility.priority
- Supports sending to custom socket, local/remote tcp & udp
- Supports custom tags
- Supports adding PID to tag
- Supports
--stderroption
- Fedora
- RHEL 7
- RHEL 6
- RHEL 5
$ ./logger.pl -h
usage: logger.pl [-h|--help] [-p PRIO] [-t TAG] [-i] [-u SOCKET | --udp | --tcp]
[-n SERVER] [-P PORT]
A perl logger clone that reads input via stdin
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p, --priority PRIO specify priority for given message (default: user.info)
-t, --tag TAG add tag to given message (default: rsaw)
-i, --id add process ID to tag (default: False)
-u, --socket SOCKET write to local UNIX socket (default: /dev/log)
-d, --udp log via UDP instead of UNIX socket (default: False)
-T, --tcp log via TCP instead of UNIX socket (default: False)
-n, --server SERVER DNS/IP of syslog server to use with --udp or --tcp
(default: localhost)
-P, --port PORT port to use with --udp or --tcp (default: 514)
-s, --stderr output to standard error as well (default: False)
logger.pl v0.1.2 last mod 2016/04/12
For issues & questions, see: https://github.com/ryran/loggerclones/issues