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.msg 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>

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