sloginfo

Print messages from the system log

Syntax:

sloginfo [options] [filename]

Options:

-c: Clear the log buffer after displaying all waiting events.
-h: Print unformatted entries in hexadecimal. By default, they're printed in decimal.
-m code: Display events with this major code (default: display all).
-s 0..7: Display events with this severity or lower (default: 7). The lowest severity is 7 and the highest is 0.
-t: Print time for events with millisecond resolution.
-w: Wait for more events to arrive.
filename: The name of the file containing raw events (default: /dev/slog).

Description:

The sloginfo utility prints the contents of the system log buffer managed by slogger , which must be running to record these messages.

By default, sloginfo prints all messages and exits. You can use the -w option to have it wait for more messages.

You can use the -m and -s options to filter the messages to print. There are 16 million major codes, with 4096 minor codes for each major code. Selecting a major code displays messages with any of the minor codes for the specified major code. You can use the major codes to display messages for a specific area, such as TCP/IP. The major codes are defined in the file /usr/include/sys/slogcodes.h.

If a filename is specified, sloginfo takes its input from that file instead of /dev/slog. It's assumed that the file contains raw system log data saved by a program or is the file specified in the -l option to slogger.

Examples:

Print out all system log messages and exit:

sloginfo

Print out all system log messages and wait for more to arrive, printing them as they do:

sloginfo -w

Print out all system log messages, clear the log, and exit:

sloginfo -c

Display only system log messages with a severity of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4:

sloginfo -s 4

Display the system log messages stored in a specific file:

sloginfo /var/logs/slog0

Files:

/dev/slog: The default system log file.