NAME¶

Blogger - writes messages to a running blogd process

SYNOPSIS¶

blogger [-n|-d|-f|-s|-u] "a message here"

DESCRIPTION¶

blogger is used to send messages to the blogd process during boot phase. These messages will only appear in the boot logging file /var/log/boot.log and not on /dev/console.

OPTIONS¶

-n

Declare the following message as a <notice>. This is the default.

-d

Use thist to add the leading string <done> to the message.

-f

Use thist to add the leading string <failed> to the message.

-s

Use thist to add the leading string <skipped> to the message.

-u

Use thist to add the leading string <unused> to the message.

FILES¶

/dev/blog

the named pipe (FIFO) used as message channel to the blogd process.

SEE ALSO¶

blogd(8), console(4), tty(4), proc(5).

COPYRIGHT¶

2001 Werner Fink, 2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

AUTHOR¶

Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>