NAME

       courierlogger - Courier syslog wrapper

SYNOPSIS

       courierlogger [-name=title] [-facility=subsystem] [-pid=filename] [-user=user] [-group=group] [-droproot]
                     [[[-respawn] [-start] program [argument...]] | [-stop] | [-restart]]

DESCRIPTION

       courierlogger is a wrapper that captures another process´s error messages, and forwards them to the
       system logging facility, “syslog”.

       There are two ways to use courierlogger:

        1.  Use the shell to pipe another command´s standard error, and/or its standard output, to
           courierlogger´s standard input.

        2.  Alternatively, 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.

OPTIONS

       -name=title
           Use title for sending messages to syslog.  title should be the application´s name.

       -facility=subsystem
           Use subsystem for classifying messages. Your syslog facility uses subsystem to determine which log
           messages are recorded in which log files. The currently defined subsystems are:

           •   auth

           •   authpriv

           •   console

           •   cron

           •   daemon

           •   ftp

           •   kern

           •   lpr

           •   mail

           •   news

           •   security

           •   user

           •   uucp

           •   local0

           •   local1

           •   local2

           •   local3

           •   local4

           •   local5

           •   local6

           •   local7

               Note
               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.

       -pid=filename
           Save courierlogger´s process ID in filename. The -pid option is required when -start, -stop, -restart
           are given. If -pid is given without any of these, -start is assumed.

       -start
           Run as a daemon. The pid option is required.  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.

       -respawn
           Restart program if it terminates. Normally courierlogger itself will terminate when program finishes
           running. Use respawn to restart it instead.

       -restart
           Send a SIGHUP signal to the courierlogger process (as determined by examining the contents of the
           file specified by pid), which will in turn send a SIGHUP to its child program. Does nothing if
           courierlogger is not running.

           Note
           program must be originally started with the respawn option if sending it a SIGHUP causes it to
           terminate.

           The same thing may be accomplished by sending SIGHUP to courierlogger itself.

       -stop
           Send a SIGTERM signal to courierlogger, which in turn forwards it on to program. If program does not
           terminate in 8 seconds, kill it with SIGKILL.

       -user=user, -group=group
           If running as root, change credentials to the given user and/or group, which may be given as names or
           numeric ids.

           When running a child program, it is started before privileges are dropped (unless the -droproot
           option is also given). This gives a means of starting a child as root so it can bind to a privileged
           port, but still have courierlogger run as a non-root user. For the -stop and -restart options to
           work, you should configure the child program to drop its privileges to the same userid too.

       -droproot
           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 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 reads message from standard input, and automatically
           terminates when standard input is closed.

SEE ALSO

       couriertcpd(1)[1], your syslog man page.

NOTES

        1. couriertcpd(1)
           couriertcpd.html