[Initng] IRC meeting

Rob Ubuntu Linux rob.ubuntu.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Dec 1 00:49:17 CET 2007


On Nov 30, 2007 8:39 PM, Jerome Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net> wrote:
> A simple shell script could accomplish this:
>
> daemon | while read line; do logger "$line"; done

Neat but "real" sysadmins won't love you for it.  You lose the logging
level, which stops the admin selecting how much to log, and increase
logging detail when a service is under investigation.

The logging facility matters to, so you can split stuff into different files.


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