<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <title> Postfix manual - postlog(1) </title> </head> <body> <pre> POSTLOG(1) POSTLOG(1) <b>NAME</b> postlog - Postfix-compatible logging utility <b>SYNOPSIS</b> <b>postlog</b> [<b>-iv</b>] [<b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i>] [<b>-p</b> <i>priority</i><b>] [-t</b> <i>tag</i>] [<i>text...</i>] <b>DESCRIPTION</b> The <b>postlog</b> command implements a Postfix-compatible log- ging interface for use in, for example, shell scripts. By default, <b>postlog</b> logs the <i>text</i> given on the command line as one record. If no <i>text</i> is specified on the command line, <b>postlog</b> reads from standard input and logs each input line as one record. Logging is sent to <b>syslogd</b>(8); when the standard error stream is connected to a terminal, logging is sent there as well. The following options are implemented: <b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i> Read the <b>main.cf</b> configuration file in the named directory instead of the default configuration directory. <b>-i</b> Include the process ID in the logging tag. <b>-p</b> <i>priority</i> Specifies the logging severity: <b>info</b> (default), <b>warn</b>, <b>error</b>, <b>fatal</b>, or <b>panic</b>. <b>-t</b> <i>tag</i> 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 speci- fied. <b>-v</b> Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Mul- tiple <b>-v</b> options make the software increasingly verbose. <b>ENVIRONMENT</b> MAIL_CONFIG Directory with the <b>main.cf</b> file. <b>CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS</b> The following <b>main.cf</b> parameters are especially relevant to this program. The text below provides only a parameter summary. See <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a> for more details including examples. <b><a href="postconf.5.html#config_directory">config_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf configuration files. <b><a href="postconf.5.html#syslog_facility">syslog_facility</a> (mail)</b> The syslog facility of Postfix logging. <b><a href="postconf.5.html#syslog_name">syslog_name</a> (postfix)</b> The mail system name that is prepended to the pro- cess name in syslog records, so that "smtpd" becomes, for example, "postfix/smtpd". <b>SEE ALSO</b> <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters syslogd(8), syslog daemon <b>LICENSE</b> The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software. <b>AUTHOR(S)</b> Wietse Venema IBM T.J. Watson Research P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA POSTLOG(1) </pre> </body> </html>