script that logs to syslog

[Todd Zullinger]

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Mark Haney wrote:
> I have a need for one of my bash scripts to log to syslog instead of
> it's own file.  I've googled various ways and found very little to
> help me.  Is there a down-and-dirty way to do this?

logger(1) should do what you want:

logger - a shell command interface to the syslog(3) system log module

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