I found myself in a situation recently where I wanted to log a message from a shell script that included MESSAGE_ID. As far as I can tell there's no utility binary for this.
systemd ships systemd-cat which connects to the journal, but it doesn't have support for structured logging; it's just a way to conveniently stream textual output to the journal. But that's not useful to me in this context because in current GNOME-OSTree we already have gdm set up to log the session to the journal; what I want is the ability to output structured messages. util-linux has included a tool "logger" for a log time; it wraps syslog; better, it's more oriented for logging a single message, which is convenient for shell script as in this case. It certainly seems like it could make sense to add a command line switch like --struct=MESSAGE_ID=0ce153587afa4095832d233c17a88001 to logger. Or is there an existing tool for this I'm missing? Should systemd-cat support structured logging? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
