[NTLUG:Discuss] Writing to /var/log/messages ?

[David I S Mandala]

I am some what confused by what you are asking but the command logger
will make entries into the syslog which is what /var/log/messages is
part of. man logger. It's quite handy actually.

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:15 -0600, David Simmons, PE wrote:
> I'm creating a simple script to erase a recent rash of Microsoft's
> errors to 'clean up after itself' with the following and want to:
> 
> find/erase commands | wc -l > echo " to log file  "
> 
> to /var/log/messages.....is there some 'command' type way or just do a:
> 
> find/erase commands | wc -l >> /var/log/messages
> 
> ??  Thanks...here's the 'real' command/script if needed:
> 
> find / -name "~*.tmp" -print -exec rm "{}" \;
> 
> 
> dave
> 
> 
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