courierlogger â Courier syslog wrapper
courierlogger [-name=title] [-facility=subsystem] [-pid=filename] [-user=user] [-group=group] [-droproot] [[[-respawn] [-start]
- program [argument...]] | [-stop] | [-restart]]
+courierlogger is a wrapper that captures another process's error messages, and forwards them to the system logging facility, @@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ There are two ways to use courierlogger:
Use the shell to pipe another command's standard error, and/or its standard output, to -courierlogger's standard input.
+courierlogger's standard input.
Alternatively, -courierlogger +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.
title+In either case, each read line of text is sent as a syslog message.
title
Use title for sending messages to syslog.
title should be the application's name.
subsystem
Use subsystem for classifying messages.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ 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.
filename
-Save courierlogger's
+Save courierlogger's
process ID in filename.
The -pid option is required when
-start,
@@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ The -pid option is required when
-restart are given. If -pid
is given without any of these, -start is assumed.
Run as a daemon. The pid option is required.
-courierlogger will quietly terminate if another
-courierlogger process is already running.
+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.
Restart program if it terminates.
Normally
-courierlogger itself will terminate when
+courierlogger itself will terminate when
program finishes running.
Use respawn to restart it instead.
Send a SIGHUP signal to the courierlogger process
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Does nothing if courierlogger is not running.
SIGHUP
causes it to terminate.
The same thing may be accomplished by sending SIGHUP
-to courierlogger itself.
+to courierlogger itself.
Send a SIGTERM signal to courierlogger, which in turn
forwards it on to program.
If program does not terminate in 8 seconds, kill it
@@ -78,12 +78,12 @@ 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
+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
+courierlogger, capturing its standard error.
+Otherwise, courierlogger
reads message from standard input, and automatically terminates when
-standard input is closed.