Is it possible to log errors to syslog?

[jmeile]

Hi

I have a script like this:

#!/bin/bash
source 'shell-core/base/trap.bash'

#Do something here

If I run it from the console, the errors will show properly; however, I want to run the script from the crontab and I would like to log the errors (complete backtrace) to the syslog. Is this possible? How?

Thanks

Best regards
Josef

[jmeile]

Ok, never mind, I found this solution:

#!/bin/bash
#DEBUG can be:
# 0 - the errors will be logged to the syslog and printed to the console
# 1 - the errors will be printed to the console
DEBUG=0

if [ "$DEBUG" = "0" ]; then
  echo -e "\n\n\n"
  echo -e "\t\t\t\t\t*********************************************************"
  echo -e "\t\t\t\t\tWith DEBUG=0, no colors will be displayed on the console."
  echo -e "\t\t\t\t\tIf you want collors, then use DEBUG=1; however note that"
  echo -e "\t\t\t\t\tnothing will be written to the syslog"
  echo -e "\t\t\t\t\t*********************************************************"
  echo -e "\n\n\n"
  exec 1> >(logger -s -t $(basename $0)) 2>&1
fi

#This supposes that shell-core is stored in the same folder that my script
SCRIPT_FOLDER=`dirname "$0"`
source "$SCRIPT_FOLDER/shell-core/base/trap.bash"

#Do something here

I don't know how to print color when logging to the logger, but I think I can live with that.

By the way, thanks to the update of the error handling script. I found you on your post in stackoverflow

Best regards
Josef