System Administration Commands                          msgid(1M)



NAME
     msgid - generate message IDs

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sbin/msgid


DESCRIPTION
     The msgid utility generates message IDs.


     A message ID is a numeric identifier that  uniquely  identi-
     fies  a  message.  Although  the probability of two distinct
     messages having the same ID is high,  this  can  be  greatly
     reduced  with  the  appropriate  priority  or facility.level
     designator (see syslogd(1M)). Specifically, the  message  ID
     is  a  hash  signature  on  the  message's unexpanded format
     string,  generated  by  STRLOGMAKEMSGID()  as  defined  in
     .


     syslogd(1M) is a simple filter that takes strings  as  input
     and  produces  those same strings, preceded by their message
     IDs, as output. Every message logged by syslogd(1M) includes
     the  message  ID.  The  message ID is intended to serve as a
     small, language-independent identifier.

EXAMPLES
     Example 1 Using the msgid command to generate a message ID


     The following example uses the msgid command to  generate  a
     message ID for the echo command.


       example# echo hello  msgid205790 hello



     Example 2 Using the msgid  command  to  generate  a  message
     catalog


     The following example uses the msgid  command  to  enumerate
     all of the messages in the binary ufs, to generate a message
     catalog.


       example# strings /kernel/fs/ufs  msgid

       137713 free:
           freeing free frag, dev:0x%lx, blk:%ld, cg:%d, ino:%lu, fs:%s



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System Administration Commands                          msgid(1M)



       567420 ialloccg: block not in mapfs = %s
       845546 alloc: %s: file system full
       ...



ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWcsu                     
    


SEE ALSO
     syslogd(1M), attributes(5), log(7d)


































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