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In this video, you'll learn about the logger command. Logger is a command that you can

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use to write messages to your standard journaling solution. So it works with systemd journald,

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it also works with rsyslog. And it's convenient if you want to write a message from a script.

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Because maybe your script is generating an error condition that you want to be logged,

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well, logger is what you are going to do. You can use it with the option minus P followed

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by a priority to even send messages with a specific priority. Let me show you. So I'm

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using logger minus PR. Hello, folks. And that should be doing it. So journal CTL, uppercase

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G is showing me who in red. Hello, folks. Now to get a little bit more detail, you might

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also want to use journal CTL minus PR so that you can see all errors. And there we

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can see that my logger command is nicely added to it. And that's really all there is to know

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about the logger command. It's very straightforward.