msgid(1M) System Administration Commands msgid(1M)NAMEmsgid - generate message IDs
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/msgid
DESCRIPTION
The msgid utility generates message IDs.
A message ID is a numeric identifier that uniquely identifies a mes‐
sage. 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 mes‐
sage 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 attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcsu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOsyslogd(1M), attributes(5), log(7d)SunOS 5.10 9 Oct 1998 msgid(1M)
