[SunHELP] logger utility

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Nguyen, David M said ...
 
> I'd like to use logger utility to log errors from /myown/logfile.log to
> /var/adm/messages.  Has someone known a better way to do this or having
> a script to do this?

I use this function in my shell scripts:

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# A Logging function so we can look like the big boys.

log ()
{
        logger -p user.err -t "`/bin/basename $0`" $@
}

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And call it like this:

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log "Level $LEVEL dump complete:"

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or even:

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log "-f $tempfile"

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-Shel