Redirecting standard output to syslog

Question

I\'m planning to package OpenTibia Server for Debian. One of the things I want to do is add startup via /etc/init.d and daemonization of the otserv

Answer 1

You can pipe your stdout to syslog with the logger command:

NAME

 logger - a shell command interface to the syslog(3) system log module

SYNOPSIS

 logger [-isd] [-f file] [-p pri] [-t tag] [-u socket] [message ...]

DESCRIPTION

 Logger makes entries in the system log.  It provides a shell command
 interface to the syslog(3) system log module.

If you don't supply a message on the command line it reads stdin