[7352] in Athena Bugs
Re: rt 7.2R: logger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 21 15:55:23 1991
From: epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 15:03:25 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [7349]
>>What were you trying to do?
>> "logger -help" to get a usage message
>>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>> logger(1)
I read the documentation:
SYNOPSIS
logger [ -t tag ] [ -p pri ] [ -i ] [ -f file ] [ message
... ]
Nowhere in the the man page does it say that "-" has to be interpreted
as a command line argument. I see the message field and I interpret that
as meaning that unless you use the options -i -t -f or -p, it is part of
the message.
Would you expect logger -ip local0.notice
to work?
For instance, rm - file will use the - as a null, logger does something
similar.
I argue it's not a bug but a user interface question.
Ezra
