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POSTLOG(1)                                                                                        POSTLOG(1)



NAME
       postlog - Postfix-compatible logging utility

SYNOPSIS
       postlog [-iv] [-c config_dir] [-p priority] [-t tag] [text...]

DESCRIPTION
       The  postlog(1)  command  implements  a Postfix-compatible logging interface for use in, for example,
       shell scripts.

       By default, postlog(1) logs the text given on the command line as one record. If no text is specified
       on the command line, postlog(1) reads from standard input and logs each input line as one record.

       Logging  is sent to syslogd(8); when the standard error stream is connected to a terminal, logging is
       sent there as well.

       The following options are implemented:

       -c config_dir
              Read the main.cf configuration file in the named directory instead of the  default  configura-tion configuration
              tion directory.

       -i     Include the process ID in the logging tag.

       -p priority
              Specifies the logging severity: info (default), warn, error, fatal, or panic.

       -t tag Specifies the logging tag, that is, the identifying name that appears at the beginning of each
              logging record. A default tag is used when none is specified.

       -v     Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple -v options make the software  increas-ingly increasingly
              ingly verbose.

ENVIRONMENT
       MAIL_CONFIG
              Directory with the main.cf file.

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
       The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant to this program.

       The  text  below  provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for more details including exam-ples. examples.
       ples.

       config_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
              The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf configuration files.

       syslog_facility (mail)
              The syslog facility of Postfix logging.

       syslog_name (postfix)
              The mail system name that is prepended to the process name in syslog records, so that  "smtpd"
              becomes, for example, "postfix/smtpd".

SEE ALSO
       postconf(5), configuration parameters
       syslogd(8), syslog daemon

LICENSE
       The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.

AUTHOR(S)
       Wietse Venema
       IBM T.J. Watson Research
       P.O. Box 704
       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA



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