BLOGGER(8)

💖 BLOGGER(8) — the SUSE boot concept, but make it a group chat 💖

okay so bestie, this is blogger from the SUSE boot concept, and honestly? it's giving tiny but mighty. it's an 8th-section admin command, and its whole personality is "pass notes to blogd while the system is booting." let me walk you through it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Blogger — writes messages to a running blogd process. that's it, that's the job. lowkey iconic for how focused it is 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

blogger [-n|-d|-f|-s|-u] "a message here"

so you pick one of the little flag letters, then hand it a message in quotes, and it goes off to do its thing 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

blogger is what you use to send messages to the blogd process during the boot phase. like, while the system is still waking up and stretching, this is how you slide a note over.

here's the part you gotta remember though: these messages will only appear in the boot logging file /var/log/boot.log and not on /dev/console. so don't be out here expecting your little message to show up on the screen, bestie 😭 it's going in the log file and that's the vibe.

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

one bullet per flag, no cap, all of them accounted for:

• -n — Declare the following message as a <notice>. This is the default. so if you don't pick anything, this is what you get 🫶
• -d — Use this to add the leading string <done> to the message. slay, task complete ✨
• -f — Use this to add the leading string <failed> to the message. it's giving "we don't talk about that" 💀
• -s — Use this to add the leading string <skipped> to the message. not us skipping it 🙈
• -u — Use this to add the leading string <unused> to the message. sitting there, unused, main character energy 👑

little heads up: the original page spells it "thist" in those four descriptions (-d, -f, -s, -u) — that's the source text, verbatim, and we're keeping it exactly as it is, typos and all 💖

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /dev/blog — the named pipe (FIFO) used as message channel to the blogd process. this is the actual tube your message goes down, bestie 🌈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read up on these, iykyk:

• blogd(8)
• console(4)
• tty(4)
• proc(5)

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

2001 Werner Fink, 2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💅 this one's from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, dated Jan 14, 2016, and it's BLOGGER(8) — ok bye bestie, go log something cute 🍓🧚💜