[JB] As for logging, I'm not familiar with syslog type log entries and syslog based log filters. If you could supply an example, I can emulate it.
[AL] Don't emulate, use logger(1) - wrap shell functions around it to set facility/priority (e.g. mailme.urgent) tag etc. Can also specify log file using it (or via the wrapper) but better to actually use default of output via syslogd since you can then use syslog.conf to specify which types of log messages go where and just edit this to keep full archives for statistics and pay attention to particular specified filtered extracts. Lots of software in sysadmin ports/packages collection and other archives to use it with. Perl modules etc too. newsyslog(8) - maintain system log files to manageable sizes syslog.conf(5) - syslogd 8 configuration file syslogd(8) - log systems messages
