Re: Syslog and pg_options (for RPMs)

ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers) writes:
> Not so fast... logger just writes its arguments to syslog.  I don't
> see any indication that it (portably) reads its standard input.

FWIW, the HPUX 10.20 man page for logger sez:
     A message can be given on the command line, which is logged     immediately, or a file is read and each line is
logged. If no file or     message is specified, the contents of the standard input are logged.
 

and they also claim
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE     logger: XPG4, POSIX.2

The fact that it's POSIX.2 rather than POSIX.1 might worry folks, but
I suspect the majority of systems will have it if they have syslog.

(Curiously, the HP man pages do not say that syslog(3) or syslogd(1m)
conform to *any* standard ... hmm ... is logger more portable than
syslog?)
        regards, tom lane