COURIERLOGGER(1) Double Precision, Inc. COURIERLOGGER(1)NAMEcourierlogger - Courier syslog wrapper
SYNOPSIScourierlogger [-name=title] [-facility=subsystem] [-pid=filename]
[-user=user] [-group=group] [-droproot]
[[[-respawn] [-start] program [argument...]] | [-stop] |
[-restart]]
DESCRIPTIONcourierlogger is a wrapper that captures another process's error
messages, and forwards them to the system logging facility, “syslog”.
There are two ways to use courierlogger:
1. Use the shell to pipe another command's standard error, and/or its
standard output, to courierlogger's standard input.
2. Alternatively, courierlogger itself can start another process, and
arrange to have its standard error captured.
In either case, each read line of text is sent as a syslog message.
OPTIONS
-name=title
Use title for sending messages to syslog. title should be the
application's name.
-facility=subsystem
Use subsystem for classifying messages. Your syslog facility uses
subsystem to determine which log messages are recorded in which log
files. The currently defined subsystems are:
· auth
· authpriv
· console
· cron
· daemon
· ftp
· kern
· lpr
· mail
· news
· security
· user
· uucp
· local0
· local1
· local2
· local3
· local4
· local5
· local6
· local7
Note
Not all of the above facility names are implemented on every
system. Check your system's syslog documentation for
information on which facility names are allowed, and which log
files record the corresponding messages for each facility.
-pid=filename
Save courierlogger's process ID in filename. The -pid option is
required when -start, -stop, -restart are given. If -pid is given
without any of these, -start is assumed.
-start
Run as a daemon. The pid option is required. courierlogger will
quietly terminate if another courierlogger process is already
running. This is used to make sure that only one instance of
program is running at the same time. Specify a different filename
with pid to start a second copy of program.
-respawn
Restart program if it terminates. Normally courierlogger itself
will terminate when program finishes running. Use respawn to
restart it instead.
-restart
Send a SIGHUP signal to the courierlogger process (as determined by
examining the contents of the file specified by pid), which will in
turn send a SIGHUP to its child program. Does nothing if
courierlogger is not running.
Note
program must be originally started with the respawn option if
sending it a SIGHUP causes it to terminate.
The same thing may be accomplished by sending SIGHUP to
courierlogger itself.
-stop
Send a SIGTERM signal to courierlogger, which in turn forwards it
on to program. If program does not terminate in 8 seconds, kill it
with SIGKILL.
-user=user, -group=group
If running as root, change credentials to the given user and/or
group, which may be given as names or numeric ids.
When running a child program, it is started before privileges are
dropped (unless the -droproot option is also given). This gives a
means of starting a child as root so it can bind to a privileged
port, but still have courierlogger run as a non-root user. For the
-stop and -restart options to work, you should configure the child
program to drop its privileges to the same userid too.
-droproot
Drop root privileges before starting the child process. The -user
and -group options specify the non-privileges userid and groupid.
Without the -droproot option the child process remains a root
process, and only the parent courierlogger process drops root
privileges.
program [ argument ] ...
If a program is given program will be started as a child process of
courierlogger, capturing its standard error. Otherwise,
courierlogger reads message from standard input, and automatically
terminates when standard input is closed.
SEE ALSOcouriertcpd(1)[1], your syslog man page.
NOTES
1. couriertcpd(1)
[set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/couriertcpd.html
Double Precision, Inc. 06/20/2015 COURIERLOGGER(1)
