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 Maintenance 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, with a high  pro-
      bability,  uniquely identifies a message. The probability of
      two distinct messages having the same ID is about one  in  a
      million. Specifically, the message ID is a hash signature on
      the  message's  unexpanded  format  string,   generated   by
      STRLOG_MAKE_MSGID() as defined in <sys/strlog.h>.
 
      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 | msgid
      205790 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
      567420 ialloccg: block not in mapfs = %s
      845546 alloc: %s: file system full
      ...
 
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
 
 
 
 
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 Maintenance Commands                                    msgid(1M)
 
 
 
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     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
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SEE ALSO
      syslogd(1M)attributes(5)log(7d)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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