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<refentry id="sd_journal_print">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_journal_print</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<surname>Poettering</surname>
<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>sd_journal_print</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>sd_journal_print</refname>
<refname>sd_journal_printv</refname>
<refname>sd_journal_send</refname>
<refname>sd_journal_sendv</refname>
<refname>sd_journal_perror</refname>
<refname>SD_JOURNAL_SUPPRESS_LOCATION</refname>
<refpurpose>Submit log entries to the journal</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-journal.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_print</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>priority</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>const char *<parameter>format</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>...</paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_printv</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>priority</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>const char *<parameter>format</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>va_list <parameter>ap</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_send</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>const char *<parameter>format</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>...</paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_sendv</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>const struct iovec *<parameter>iov</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>n</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_perror</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>const char *<parameter>message</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>sd_journal_print()</function> may be used to
submit simple, plain text log entries to the system journal. The
first argument is a priority value. This is followed by a format
string and its parameters, similar to
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>printf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
or
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
The priority value is one of
<constant>LOG_EMERG</constant>,
<constant>LOG_ALERT</constant>,
<constant>LOG_CRIT</constant>,
<constant>LOG_ERR</constant>,
<constant>LOG_WARNING</constant>,
<constant>LOG_NOTICE</constant>,
<constant>LOG_INFO</constant>,
<constant>LOG_DEBUG</constant>, as defined in
<filename>syslog.h</filename>, see
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details. It is recommended to use this call to submit log
messages in the application locale or system locale and in UTF-8
format, but no such restrictions are enforced.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_printv()</function> is similar to
<function>sd_journal_print()</function> but takes a variable
argument list encapsulated in an object of type
<varname>va_list</varname> (see
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>stdarg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more information) instead of the format string. It is
otherwise equivalent in behavior.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_send()</function> may be used to submit
structured log entries to the system journal. It takes a series of
format strings, each immediately followed by their associated
parameters, terminated by <constant>NULL</constant>. The strings
passed should be of the format <literal>VARIABLE=value</literal>.
The variable name must be in uppercase and consist only of
characters, numbers and underscores, and may not begin with an
underscore. (All assignments that do not follow this syntax will
be ignored.) The value can be of any size and format. It is highly
recommended to submit text strings formatted in the UTF-8
character encoding only, and submit binary fields only when
formatting in UTF-8 strings is not sensible. A number of
well-known fields are defined, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details, but additional application defined fields may be
used. A variable may be assigned more than one value per
entry.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is similar to
<function>sd_journal_send()</function> but takes an array of
<varname>struct iovec</varname> (as defined in
<filename>uio.h</filename>, see
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>readv</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details) instead of the format string. Each structure should
reference one field of the entry to submit. The second argument
specifies the number of structures in the array.
<function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is particularly useful to
submit binary objects to the journal where that is
necessary.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_perror()</function> is a similar to
<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>perror</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
and writes a message to the journal that consists of the passed
string, suffixed with ": " and a human-readable representation of
the current error code stored in
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
If the message string is passed as <constant>NULL</constant> or
empty string, only the error string representation will be
written, prefixed with nothing. An additional journal field ERRNO=
is included in the entry containing the numeric error code
formatted as decimal string. The log priority used is
<constant>LOG_ERR</constant> (3).</para>
<para>Note that <function>sd_journal_send()</function> is a
wrapper around <function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> to make it
easier to use when only text strings shall be submitted. Also, the
following two calls are mostly equivalent:</para>
<programlisting>sd_journal_print(LOG_INFO, "Hello World, this is PID %lu!", (unsigned long) getpid());
sd_journal_send("MESSAGE=Hello World, this is PID %lu!", (unsigned long) getpid(),
"PRIORITY=%i", LOG_INFO,
NULL);</programlisting>
<para>Note that these calls implicitly add fields for the source
file, function name and code line where invoked. This is
implemented with macros. If this is not desired, it can be turned
off by defining SD_JOURNAL_SUPPRESS_LOCATION before including
<filename>sd-journal.h</filename>.</para>
<para><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
and <function>sd_journal_print()</function> may
largely be used interchangeably
functionality-wise. However, note that log messages
logged via the former take a different path to the
journal server than the later, and hence global
chronological ordering between the two streams cannot
be guaranteed. Using
<function>sd_journal_print()</function> has the
benefit of logging source code line, filenames, and
functions as metadata along all entries, and
guaranteeing chronological ordering with structured
log entries that are generated via
<function>sd_journal_send()</function>. Using
<function>syslog()</function> has the benefit of being
more portable.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
<para>The four calls return 0 on success or a negative errno-style
error code. The
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
variable itself is not altered.</para>
<para>If
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
is not running (the socket is not present), those functions do
nothing, and also return 0.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Async signal safety</title>
<para><function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is "async signal
safe" in the meaning of
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>signal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_print</function>,
<function>sd_journal_printv</function>,
<function>sd_journal_send</function>, and
<function>sd_journal_perror</function> are
not async signal safe.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>The <function>sd_journal_print()</function>,
<function>sd_journal_printv()</function>,
<function>sd_journal_send()</function> and
<function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> interfaces are available
as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
<constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>perror</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>signal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>