From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 27 16:30:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621F9657 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:30:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=88332b9ee=pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com) Received: from ip-005.utdallas.edu (ip-005.utdallas.edu [129.110.182.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDDA10FC for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:30:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Group: None X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlcBAC9nzFGBbgogXGdsb2JhbABbgzqDCqwMkVQDGA0JBzyCYgKBYxqIIZp7hnmZL5JeYwOJIqMXHg X-IPAS-Result: AlcBAC9nzFGBbgogXGdsb2JhbABbgzqDCqwMkVQDGA0JBzyCYgKBYxqIIZp7hnmZL5JeYwOJIqMXHg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,953,1363150800"; d="scan'208";a="14221585" Received: from zxtm01.utdallas.edu (HELO utd71538.utdallas.edu) ([129.110.10.32]) by ip-005.utdallas.edu with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 27 Jun 2013 11:29:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:29:19 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: Freebsd Questions Subject: Why doesn't this work? Message-ID: <490C0497718DA8BC80E42A15@localhost> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.1.0a1 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; size=802 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:30:33 -0000 echo "Testing, testing, testing" |/usr/bin/tee -a /var/log/httpd-access.log |/usr/bin/logger -t base_http_access /var/log/testing.log This writes to the httpd-access.log but does not write to /var/log/testing.log. I'm probably reading the man page incorrectly, but I thought this should work. For some reason absolutely nothing is being passed from tee to logger. What am I missing? -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell