Examples

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Send a message to the localhost, priority user.info:

klog –m "It's almost lunchtime"

Send a syslog message to host 'rotterdam', with priority user.notice:

klog -h rotterdam -F user -L notice –m "The quick brown fox tripped"

Send a TCP message to the 'mailhost' Unix server advising of an email:

klog -h mailhost –t -F daemon -L info –m "Mail message sent by Piero"

Send a message to machine 'timesvr' every second until a key is pressed on the keyboard:

klog -h timesvr –w –m "Tick tock"

Send a message to the syslog daemon on 'sysloghost' running on UDP port 2110. Use RFC headers, with a process name of 'myproc'. Use a pre-calculated priority of 122:

klog -h sysloghost -u 2110 -r myproc -p 122 –m "Local event occurred"

Send the output from a DIR command to host 192.168.1.2:

DIR *.* | klog -h 192.168.1.2 -i