>> >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

oh, yes, of course.  in that case, you will want to do:

tag="mytag[$$]"
logger -t "$tag" -p what.ever ta-da!

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