msgid(1M) (man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands)

man pages section 1M: 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, with a high probability, 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 | 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 | msgid137713 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 attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcsu