Notify_syslog

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Syslog Notifications

• Source: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424
• Icon Support: No
• Message Format: Text
• Message Limit: 32768 Characters per message

Leverage the local syslog server if loaded.

Syntax

Valid syntax is as follows:

• syslog://
• syslog://{facility}

One might change the facility from it's default like so:

• syslog://local5

Parameter Breakdown

Variable	Required	Description
is used by default.
facility	No	The facility to use, by default it is user. Valid options are kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron, local0, local1, local2, local3, local4, local5, local6, and local7
logperror	No	Additionally send the log message to stderr. This method is ignored when preforming a remote query.
logpid	Yes	Include PID as part of the log output.

Example

Send a Syslog notification

# The following sends a syslog notification to the `user` facility
apprise -vv -t "Test Message Title" -b "Test Message Body" \
   syslog://