On Friday 27 July 2001 02:32 you've wrote:
> >Is there a way to have logger put the pid of it's parent process into its
> > tag ? As far as I can see if you use no tag, it prints its own pid. If
> > you use a tag, you get no pid at all. But if I want to log from a say,
> > script, I'd like to have the scripts pid, not that of logger itself, as
> > it's long way dead when I read the entry in syslog.
>
> ppid=`ps -oppid -p$$ | tail -1`
> tag="mytag[$ppid]"
> logger -t "$tag" -p what.ever ta-da!

Mmmmmm

For a shell running under an xterm that reports the pid of the xterm, not 
that of the shell.. but tomorrow, after a good amount of sleep, I'll look 
onto ps some more, thanx for the directions

Martin Weber