July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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-r retries
Stop trying to create files after this many retries. The default is
-1 (never stop trying). When giving up, remove all created
files.
-s suspend_time
After a lockfile has been removed by force (see -l), a suspen-
sion of 16 seconds takes place by default. (This is intended to
prevent the inadvertent immediate removal of any lockfile
newly created by another program.) Use -s to change the
default suspend time.
logger
logger [options] [message...]
TCP/IP command. Add entries to the system log (via syslogd). If
no message is given on the command line, standard input is logged.
Options
-d When writing to a socket with -s, use a datagram instead of a
stream.
-f file
Read message from file.
-i Include the process ID of the logger process.
-p pri
Enter message with the specified priority pri. Default is user.
notice.
-s Log message to standard error as well as to the system log.
-t tag
Mark every line in the log with the specified tag.
-u socket
Write log to socket instead of to the syslog.
-- Accept no further options. Consider whatever is to the right of
the hyphens as the message to be logged.
login
login [name | option]
Log into the system. login asks for a username (name can be
supplied on the command line) and password (if appropriate).
If successful, login updates
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